Reeling 2009, this year’s edition of the Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, kicked off on Thu., Nov. 5, with a screening of Casper Andreas‘ The Big Gay Musical.

Upcoming feature films include:

• Billy Clift’s Baby Jane, a recreation of What Ever Happened with Baby Jane? starring real drag queens playing the two female leads — as opposed to Joan Crawford and Bette Davis playing drag queens playing the two female leads.
• Florencia Manovil’s romantic drama Fiona’s Script, about an insecure bisexual woman who reluctantly enters into a relationship with a ladies’ tomboy.
• Rob Williams‘ Make the Yuletide Gay, a family Christmas comedy about a young gay man who returns to the closet while at his parents’ home, but whose holiday bliss is threatened by the appearance of his fey boyfriend. The drama in this one doesn’t work all that well while the romance feels more than a bit off-kilter, but some of the comedic moments — especially the ones involving Mom (Kelly Keaton), Mom’s Rival Neighbor (Alison Arngrim), and Rival Neighbor’s Deceptively Straitlaced Daughter (Hallee Hirsh), are quite funny. As a plus, Keith Jordan delivers a likable, unaffected performance as the closet case.

Homewrecker by Paul Hart

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