This Ira Sachs ('The Delta,' 'Married Life') comedy is thin on laughs but long on charm. George, meanwhile, moves in downstairs with two party-happy, young gay cops (Cheyenne Jackson, Manny Perez). Burrows of 'Northern Exposure') and the nephew's author-wife (Marisa Tomei). Uncle Ben goes to live with his favorite nephew (Darren E. And because finding another place to live in Manhattan may take a while for two older men living on fixed incomes, they summon friends and family to pitch in. Without George's income, the two have to sell their apartment. George (Molina) is promptly fired, in the nicest way, by the priest (John Cullum) who runs the Catholic school where he teaches music.
'Love Is Strange' is a sweet, random little nothing that pairs up John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as a longtime couple whose lives change for the worse when they finally get married after gay marriage becomes legal in New York.
