Twisted Mister

CHUCK & BUCK; A COMEDY OF OBSESSION

Blair Witch, meet Buck—a far sicker study in terror. A comic, if gruesome, exploration of the American crested male, Chuck & Buck begins tamely enough with two boyhood friends coming together as adults. But after Buck gropes Chuck at a funeral, well... that Blair Witch forest seems awful homey. Chuck, played by American Pie co-director Chris Weitz, has grown up into Mr. Hollywood Guy. Buck, meanwhile, has only grown taller since their parting at age 11: goofy, obsessed with toys, and still of the opinion that girls are gross. After his mother's funeral, Buck refixes on Chuck as a best/boy friend, moves to Hollywood, and proceeds to upend Chuck's entire life. As the film's director, Miguel Arteta (who, with producer Matthew Greenfield, was responsible for Star Maps), describes Buck, he is "the Forrest Gump of sexual predators." Mike White, who wrote the film and stars as Buck, says the script was bom of frustration writing cookie-cutter characters for the WB's Dawsons Creek. "There's so much Dumb & Dumber homoerotic comedy out there," says White, "and there's so much earnest gay coming-of-age stuff. I just thought it would be cool to do something else."DAVID COLMAN

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