I am a big Edward Burns fan - from day one when I saw The Brothers McMullen - which I thought was brilliant - and Burns' rapid rise in movies is the stuff dreams are made of - indeed, no one I can think of has the unprecedented career path that Burns has - if they'd made a movie about it no one would have believed it - in fact his Irish-Catholic-heterosexual slant on life is very endearing - he seems utterly incapable of writing gay characters since as far as I know he never has - I find his unabashed straightness amusing to say the least - but I think it would be nice if he at least tried to work a gay character into his stories - stretch a bit Ed - it won't kill you - in Purple Violets Burns goes all the way in writing about two very straight guys who are very best friends. What is Burns trying to do to us? He casts the best looking guy in movies (Patrick Wilson) along with himself (Burns) the second best looking guy in movies and together you can't take your eyes off them - what a pair - how could they keep their hands off one another - the only misstep in Purple Violets for me was the casting of Selma Blair's husband. He just did not work at all and that was a big disappointment. Selma Blair is a knock-out - why would she fall for a chunky nerd? Doesn't make sense.
Review of Purple Violets
