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Movie Review - Steve Zahn
The Steve Zahn character Sammy is the only one of the four friends that we never see with a romantic or sexual partner except there's maybe like one quick little scene where Sammy's in a diner with a guy named Lance. I also didn't notice any stereotypes of gay men being used with his character but also he's kind of barely in the movie yeah. It signals to me that he is just allowed to be a queer character without that being like the first or defining thing you know about him so his queerness is normalized in the story and in the world that he occupies. The fact that he like he's just not allowed to have any kind of like romantic subplot the way that other
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