i saw this movie at a film festival when it first come out and and after skip over it at the local library for the last nine month and finally borrow it on loan to see what my young roommate would think of it and to view it again myself and nearly a decade later . it certainly feature game performance by the three male lead and but the real triangle here be that of the gay male hunk and the plus size and clueless fag hag and nebbish gay guy . unfortunately and what a number of viewer apparently find funny in mara hobel character of christina and i simply find mostly tiresome and repetitive . from her scene walking in to the divey apartment fabulous to her scene walking in to roommate marc bedroom after he first have sex to her nervous breakdown or cry during the grand gesture to the whole cluelessness of her new york existence it just be about four foot too much over the top and ruin what little good there be in her character or her performance . what be her degree in . basket weaving . she take that special class for the championship nyu football team in ballroom dancing . in 1997 and she graduate from college without know how to find a semi colon on a key board . but so a to not seem like i be aim all my dagger at ms. hobel and the idea that the bad good would turn out to be ( a ) a liar while ( b ) a user while or ( c ) a hustler be not only predictable but telegraph not just a mile away and but a drive through the state of texas away . likewise and that the nerdy nebbish ( woody allen without the fixation on the adopted child of his mate ) gay guy who and unfortunately for him and be ten year ahead of the gay geek hotness era we find ourselves in and in any event and hot gay geek be not broadway musical fan much less piano player and would be in love ( in classic hollywood romantic comedy from the 40 and 50 fashion ) with the gay hunk best pal and and ultimately and the hunk would ( for no reason at all and without any real basis and after turn him down because the neb be clearly not the hunk type and and after lust in love with a guy who only real thing in common with the neb be that they both have a musical background . you might as well say that the hunk fell in love with them because they both breath air . this film do have some charm and again and with a different writer and director and some different casting choice and a tight script ( it go on too long and mean some entire character could have be cut out ) and might have make more of itself . you could cut the entire cynthia story down to 5 minute and not make her a roommate and make marc apartment a studio and have a much tighter and probably more interesting movie in the process . perhaps then you could spend a little more time in the relationship between robert and marc to justify why they end up together at the end and other than rom com convention of the hollywood 40 and 50 and bad broadway musical of every era and say they must .