This is a gorgeous little film, quiet and understated and very real. It isn't a laugh riot, and it kind of skirts the line between drama and comedy... think "Dan in Real Life" and you're headed in the right direction. Great performances in this by a stellar Canadian cast: Paul Gross, Callum Keith Rennie, Daniel MacIvor (who also wrote/directed), Ellen Page, Sandra Oh, Rebecca Jenkins, James Allodi, Maury Chaykin... it's like Canadian actor bingo, and everybody wins. ;) Can't recommend it highly enough.
Though a sort of centerpiece on which much of the story hangs is related to a gay sex scandal in town, the film isn't about being gay and isn't trying to push a message about that (though I wouldn't mind if it did)... I see several other reviews were folks have rated the film poorly and seem to think the whole thing is some sort of homosexual agenda. Two of the characters happen to be gay, and that happens to have an impact on their lives -- not necessarily because they're gay, but because of how the other people in town react to that fact -- but that isn't what the film is about. It's about the lives of several people on the island -- some of whom know each other well, some of whom know each other hardly at all, and some of whom don't know each other as well as they think they do -- and how their paths intersect and separate in the course of a day.
I'm not really sure why this film is classified for "mature audiences" in Hulu, unless the fact that homosexuals exist is knowledge that ought to be kept from teens at all costs, but there's nothing too bad in here... some violence, some mild sexual situations, and some language, but I can't imagine this would be rated over PG-13.
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