Weekend
A hookup that turns into 48 hours and then into your whole personality.
Reviewed by The Jibbi Editors
The most accurate film about how gay men actually talk to each other.
- 2011
- 96 min
- 95% on Rotten Tomatoes
- 7.6 on IMDb
- #romance
- #drama
Our take
Two men meet in a Nottingham club on a Friday and part on a Sunday. That is the entire plot. Andrew Haigh fills it with the specific conversation queer people have when they are working out how much of themselves to show — one is out and political about it, one is not, and both positions get taken seriously.
It is shot small, largely in one flat, and it is more emotionally exact than films with fifty times the budget. If you have ever had a weekend that rearranged you, this is the one that knows.
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Scores
Ours
- Jibbi Score — 4.5 out of 5 rainbows. The most accurate film about how gay men actually talk to each other.
Everyone else’s
- Rotten Tomatoes — 95%, via OMDb.
- IMDb — 7.6 out of 10 from 34,952 votes, via OMDb.
- Metacritic — 81 out of 100, via OMDb.
- TMDB — 7.3 out of 10 from 589 votes, refreshed daily.
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The plot, officially
After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.
Synopsis and poster via TMDB.