Breakfast with Scot
Eric lives for all things hockey. Now in his thirties, he’s managed to turn his stint as an ex-Toronto Maple Leaf into a full-time gig as commentator for sports TV. He’s living the dream! He and his partner Sam, a lawyer, live discreetly on a tree-lined street in Toronto. But all their tranquillity is disrupted when they receive news that Sam’s brother Billy’s ex-girlfriend has died, leaving custody of her son Scot to Billy. But adventure-seeking Billy is somewhere in South America, and that leaves Scot without a guardian. Much to Eric’s disapproval, Sam agrees to take Scot in. Enter Scot, budding queen of an 11 year old, who is Eric’s mirror opposite. Dressed in vibrant colours, his mother’s charm bracelet and with a penchant for musicals and Christmas carols, he’s not quite the ‘boy’ they expected. Their household is thrown into confusion as Eric and Sam try to deal with the realities and expectations of their flamboyant charge and realize that he is much more ‘gay’ than they are. Each deals with his own issues while observing the behavior of a kid being joyously and unashamedly himself…

Bravely challenging hockey’s false and dated notion of masculinity, Breakfast With Scot is the first gay film to carry the public sanction of the Toronto Maple Leafs and the support of the National Hockey League. These bold actions deserve applause because the film is noble and well intentioned. It’s also bland and unadventurous, without much style or originality. But the smart performances, humorous dialogue and brisk pacing of Laurie Lynd’s direction are all warm and friendly. Breakfast With Scot ends up being a feel-good movie about how, in the dawn of a new day, it’s finally O.K. to be whoever you want to be. – New York Observer
Was tun, wenn unerwartet ein Waisenjunge vor der Tür eines perfekt angepassten Schwulenpaares steht und dessen Leben völlig auf den Kopf stellt? Ex-Hockeyspieler und Sportmoderator Ed und sein Partner Sam, ein erfolgreicher Unternehmensanwalt, leben seit vier Jahren zusammen und legen Wert darauf, Beruf und Privatleben strikt getrennt zu halten. Ein Kind war definitiv nie geplant. Schon gar nicht eines wie der 11-jährige Scot, um den sich Ed nach dem Tod von dessen Mutter vorläufig kümmern soll. Der Junge hat nämlich eine singende Haarbürste, einen rosa Gürtel und Söckchen mit Spitzensaum im Gepäck und steht auf Musicals! Die Bemühungen der unfreiwilligen Väter, Scot seine parfümierten Handcremes und pastellfarbenen Schals auszureden und stattdessen seine Begeisterung für Eishockey zu wecken, entpuppen sich schnell als Versuch, das eigene Unwohlsein angesichts "zu schriller" Selbstdarstellung zu verdrängen. Wer ist hier ehrlicher mit sich selbst – der kleine Scot, der sich seines Andersseins keineswegs schämt oder zwei erwachsene schwule Männer, die sich nur hinter der Fassade eines konservativen Männerbildes sicher fühlen?
Eine ganze Armada namhafter kanadischer Schauspieler bevölkert Frühstück mit Scot, aber Star der Show ist Noah Bernett als Scot, der mit großen Augen zuschaut, wie seine neuen Pflegeeltern versuchen, den Erwartungen ihres Umfelds zu entsprechen. Die Feelgood-Comedy des Jahres war der ungeschlagene Publikumsliebling auf dem Filmfestival in Toronto und dem VERZAUBERT Filmfestival.
Die Deutsche DVD erscheint am 27. November – etwa bei GayBooks.de



about 1 year ago
Is it better (whatever that means, quality of life, I guess) to be easily recognizably gay like the boy in this film, or to be able to blend into the straight world invisibly?
about 1 year ago
WOW!!
As it happens I Have met Noah Bernett (Scot) on a number of occasions. He’s a great kid, great actor too!
about 1 year ago
ha. this looks pretty funny.
/me runs off to find it
about 1 year ago
i was quite impressed when i saw it… its really good.
about 1 year ago
I saw this film at Mezipatra in Prague and must admit that despite a few giggles I felt rather perplexed by it as in all essence this film was basicly homophobic. The hyperqueer kid learning to be “normal” with the help of “normal” gay adults whose relationship is as real as life on Mars. There is absolutely nothing even remotely humorous about this would-be Hollywood crap – it just confirms all the stereotypes for the mainstream audiences about what you’re supposed to be like if you’re gay and how you should avoid it without dealing with any of the subjects it pretends to address.
about 1 year ago
“I guess there’s always private school.”
“I thought the idea was to make him *less* gay.”
HA!
about 1 year ago
So let me get this “Straight”.
Two main stream “normal” homosexuals are trying to cure their adopted son from being a Sissy.
Is that it?
Have I got this piece of shit right?
Question,…whom does this film serve?
Who benifits?
Not Sissy kids that’s for sure. They’ll just keep getting beat up or killed like that i5 year old boy recently out west.
So now not only to straighst hate them, but alledged gays want to cure them
Fuck’em both to hell.
Strong letter to follow.
about 1 year ago
I’m pretty sure that the essence of the film is the boy curing them from their heteronormativity and not the other way ’round.
about 1 year ago
Now if this were a Disney film, it would end with the moral that we are always better off just being our real selves. That’s because the world is really a warm and tolerant place if we just give it half a chance. Big round of applause from the audience when the credits roll as the boy has grown up to be a famous pastry chef on the Food Network, with the bullies who taunted him as a child, nodding approvingly.
about 1 year ago
I totaly agree with Josh. In the end the “straight” Ed is healed from his fear of being openly gay. And Scot has his make-up and jewellery back.
about 1 year ago
Thanks Darwan now your RUINED THE MOVIE…waaah. :-) just joking…
This actually came to the Memphis OutFlix festival but I missed it. Uncle Sidney with so much hate… I think the 90% gay audience watching this is probably looking for entertainment more than to change the fabric of society. I don’t think this movie is trying be anything else but a fun gay movie…why must everything be a statement?
Josh gets 1000 points for mentioning my favorite word of all time: heteronormnative. I wrote a paper once that had no less than 35 occurrences of the word (it was a long paper).
YAY!
John- I recommend “Small Town Gay Bar” if you run across it and want a documentary. I found it interesting, and sad. I am wathcing the Fred Phelps documentary tonight, but I don’t know if I can stomach it.
Much Love,
Steve
about 1 year ago
This movie made me happy. Now I’m sad again.
about 1 year ago
fuck normal homos to hell.
about 1 year ago
Hey, uncle Sidney, glad your back and in a good mood.
I wonder if there is something like a homo normalness bell curve? Its statistical STANDARD DEVIATION might carry a terminology stigma of non-political correctness. A three sigma stigma. Ha! (Somewhere on this planet, there may be a gay mathematician who actually might like that joke, or maybe on planetx?)
about 1 year ago
if you want to watch it
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v14172597Q4Rwd5ax
i thought it was cute
thanks josh!
about 1 year ago
This was a great movie I absolutely loved it
about 1 year ago
The problem with many gay folks is their own inner homophobia. Thus they fail to see when it’s thrown directly into their faces and just go along with the “jokes”. If you want to watch a realistic and humorous portayal of a queer kid, go for “The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros”, a Filippino film. Unlike “Breakfast with Scot” you won’t find much heteronormativity there or anyone fixing anybody else’s queerness.
about 1 year ago
Yeah “Maximo” was more like it. A Sissy kid as the Hero! Btw sorry about the harsh language, and static. I should have watched the movie befoer I trashed it so harshly.
It’s just that I tend to flip out when Sissies are bleeped over.
Especially if it’s done by straight-gays. These persons are an abomination.
about 1 year ago
I liked Breakfast with Scot as it’s about the reality of the world we live in. A sports caster wouldn’t last ten seconds if he was openly gay, other than the entertainment industry being out in the world is a big handicap.
about 1 year ago
Sounds like a pretty poor film, morally and cinematically. On the other hand, if it helps to change homosexuals’ attitudes towards children (and more especially their attitudes towars homosexuals who like children) then some good might come out of it.