Continuity mistake: When Joan Cusack is sobbing in the road and throws herself on Matt Dillon's car, her lipstick and mascara are smeared, suddenly her makeup is perfect.
In & Out (1997)
Plot summary
Directed by: Frank Oz
Starring: Joan Cusack, Kevin Kline, Matt Dillon, Tom Selleck, Debbie Reynolds
Genres: Comedy
The entire town of Greenleaf, IN is ecstatic because hometown boy Cameron Drake [Matt Dillon] has been nominated for an Oscar for playing a gay soldier. His high school English teachers Howard Brackett [Kevin Kline] and Emily Montgomery [Joan Cusack] are particularly pleased - both worked hard with Cameron, both like him, and shortly after the Oscars, Howard and Emily, who have been 'going together' for three years, are getting married in a big, formal wedding. In addition, Howard, a dedicated and popular teacher, has been informed that he's the front runner for the annual 'Teacher of the Year' award. On Oscar night, Greenleaf cheers when Cameron Drake wins Best Actor - and is stunned when, in his acceptance speech, he dedicates the statue to "Howard Brackett - he's gay". This comes as news to Howard, who assures Emily - and his wedding-crazed mother Bernice[Debbie Reynolds] his students, and conservative school principal Tom Halliwell [Bob Newhart] that he is not gay. He intends to marry Emily on schedule. This is more than a relief to Halliwell, who can't even say the word 'homosexual', and to the formerly overweight Emily, who has built her entire life around being worthy of Howard....
More mistakes in In & Out
Emily: Is everybody gay? What is this? The Twilight Zone?
Question: How did Cameron Drake know his former literature teacher Howard Brackett was gay, if nobody, not even Howard himself, knew it?
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Answer: He made an assumption, based on certain things he'd observed, which turned out to be true. Other people in town must clearly have had similar ideas about Howard - witness all the Streisand albums at his bachelor party - but Cameron was probably just the first one to voice it aloud. And it was just as well for Howard, because it set him on the road to discovering the truth about himself.
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