Brilliant Film, Terrible Ending

I couldn't agree more!

Wish I did as you said, and stopped watching before they jumped five years.

You´re one hundred percent right my friend!. What was that!?!, the movie was fine until there, NOT GREAT, but you know! :)

Absolutely no need for the ending as it was filmed. Once again, a gay guy dies at the end! Okay, so it was lung cancer instead of aids but really- REALLY! Up until the point I thought the movie was really right on target- one of the more real gay films I had ever seen and yes it just as easily could have been about a straight married couple.

If the director ever has the chance- ala George Lucas- he should return and reshoot the ending with Chase returning five years later, more settled and happy with a husband of his own, meeting up with Everett who has realized he made the right decision keeping his responsibility to his family. Maybe they have a hook-up and maybe they realize neither needs the sex any longer and they just catch up over coffee because it was in the end the intimacy of the friendship that made the difference to each of them. Anyway, that's how I imagine it.

I was very glad Everett returned to his family. It's what he should have done.

I think the movie in a whole is realistic. When he grabbed the suitcase he was thinking rashly, as if he had to get out of there. Reality stepped in and he knew he had responsibilities to his family. Five years pasted and life happened..

Spoiler Alert:

I thought it was a sad, but effective ending. Chase could have known all along that he might be ill (or in remission) and wanted one last crack at love. I also like how the film treats their gayness as a given: no controversy, no scornful families with dour faces, no guilt, no hustlers, no sleaze.

As sad as it is. I couldn't disagree more. The ending is what it is "a writer's vision", who are we to complain. The only complaint I had was in the fact that 5 years later he is still with the bossy control freak. Chase should have given him the courage to leave that suffocating bubble.

Bad ending. Too many unanswered questions I thought about how he left it with Chase, like did they go off together and it didn't work out, or could he not go through with it when it came to the crunch?