Other mistake: The day after the Academy Awards, there is tall corn in the fields and the kids are dressed for warm weather. The Academy Awards are in March, not a warm, corn-growing time in Indiana.
In & Out (1997)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Frank Oz
Starring: Joan Cusack, Kevin Kline, Matt Dillon, Tom Selleck, Debbie Reynolds
Genres: Comedy
Kevin Kline is gay, as is Tom Selleck. Kline is about to be fired from his job until the town rallies behind him, where everyone in the town says they are gay. His fiancee ends up with Matt Dillon in the end.
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Emily: Is everybody gay? What is this? The Twilight Zone?
Question: How did Cameron Drake know his former literature teacher Howard Brackett was gay, if nobody, not even Howard himself, knew it?
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Answer: He made an assumption, based on certain things he'd observed, which turned out to be true. Other people in town must clearly have had similar ideas about Howard - witness all the Streisand albums at his bachelor party - but Cameron was probably just the first one to voice it aloud. And it was just as well for Howard, because it set him on the road to discovering the truth about himself.
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