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At long last, lesbians have a movie to get excited about —
and nonlesbians can enjoy it, too
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by Kristine Chatwood
her boyfriend Hayjay (Andrew Wright) and Randy
alling in love for the first time is one
ending the affair she’s been having with a mar
of those universal experiences that
ried woman (Maggie Moore).
cuts across all economic, racial and
Maggenti tells her story well. We come to
gender lines. In her movie The In
know Randy and Evie by seeing them not just
credibly True Adventure o f Two Girls
with each other, but with their families and friends.
in Love, writer and director Maria Maggenti
Randy’s Aunt Rebecca (Kate Stafford) struggles
captures that experience with all its sweetness,
to support her family and provide a home for her
excitement and intensity.
niece. Evie’s mother Evelyn (Stephanie Berry) is
This is the story of Randy Dean (Laurel
divorced, professionally successful, and having a
Holloman) and Evie Roy (Nicole Parker), two
very difficult time separating from her soon-to-
be-off-to-college only child.
Although a little slow in the beginning, once
its gets going this movie really rolls along. Cer
tain scenes are sure to live on in memory.
girls in their senior year of high school, and how
It has been easy to criticize other lesbian
they fell in love. Randy is the rebellious teen from
movies. They are not well made. Their stories are
the wrong side of the tracks, complete with bad
so narrowly focused that only a handful of people
grades, a job in a gas station, and a burning desire
can identify with the characters. They promote
to play guitar in a rock ’n ’ roll band. Evie is a
stereotypes. The story doesn’t ring true. None of
well-to-do honor student, beautiful and popular.
these criticisms applies to The Incredibly True
They meet when Evie drives her Range Rover
Adventure o f Two Girls in Love.
into the gas station where Randy works. Later, a
Although this is a movie about lesbian love, it
chance meeting in the girls’ bathroom at school
is first and foremost a movie about young love. It
results in a shared detention experience, and their
is a sweet, sweet story that will stir the memory of
romance begins.
first love in all of us, lesbian and gay and straight.
All of the elements of teen love make an
Maggenti has created that most amazing of sto
appearance in this movie. Notes are furtively
ries— a story about queers that is really a story
about everyone.
exchanged at school. Friends disapprove of the
relationship and some friendships are lost. Evie
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in
gives Randy a copy of Walt W hitman’s Leaves o f
Love opens in Portland on Friday, July 14, at
Grass. Randy invites Evie over for dinner to the
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home she shares with her lesbian aunt and her
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aunt’s lover. They think about each other all the
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time. Everything is fraught with meaning. They
each leave other relationships— Evie dumping
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