G.B.F., an acronym for gay best friend, isn t exactly OMG material. Not with this rather quaint premise: An accidentally outed teen s companionship is fought over by a highly competitive trio of status-conscious clique queens as if he were a rare Birkin clutch.
It s not as if director Darren Stein, who treaded similar territory with 1999 s Jawbreaker , and first-time screenwriter George Northy aren t entirely unaware of this less-than-haute situation. One plot twist actually finds an exasperated character declaring, What is this, 2008? Yet when something as highbrow mainstream as Downton Abbey boasts a closeted-male storyline, the news that homosexuals are just like us seems about as fresh as reruns of Modern Family .