Though Jane Austen only wrote one of them, there are actually a few truths universally acknowledged: That a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife, and girls just wanna have fun.
To the elite group of authors of pithy maxims, Jane Austen and Cyndi Lauper, we may add a third ingenious scribe: Joel Kim Booster.The stand-up comedian makes a splashy debut as both a formidable literary force and an appealing leading man in “Fire Island,” his first feature film as screenwriter, and hopefully the first of many.
Though the vision was all Booster’s, the love that went into “Fire Island” emanates from every player.A true ensemble piece, the movie is filled with the joy and camaraderie of that cheesiest of queer epithets — chosen family.
But under the Day-Glo sheen of the carless beach town filled with glistening shirtless queers,
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