Movie Review

Breakfast With Scot (2008)

Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Oct 10, 2008

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

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EW's GRADE

C+

Details Release Date: Oct 10, 2008; Rated: PG-13; Genre: Drama; With: Tom Cavanagh and Ben Shenkman

BREAKFAST WITH SCOT

It's hardly the most gracefully made indie on the block — more like a whole season of a sitcom crammed into one feature. But Breakfast With Scot deserves sympathetic attention, if only for the family-values specifics loaded into the story, and the way mildmannered stars Ben Shenkman (Angels in America) and Tom Cavanagh (Ed) embrace their instructional roles: They play a ''straight-style'' gay couple (one's a former hockey pro) who become the temporary guardians of an orphaned 11-year-old boy (Noah Bernett). Bad news for the low-profile duo: The kid's a natural-born sissy. Good news from the National Hockey League: They like the movie. C+

Originally posted Oct 07, 2008 Published in issue #1016 Oct 17, 2008 Order article reprints

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