The quick-witted "Fire Island" is like Jane Austen, if the 19th-century writer's novels contained more booty shorts and recreational drugs.
Joel Kim Booster's script is a loose take on Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," and he plays a version of her Elizabeth Bennet, a clever gay man named Noah. "Fire Island" is less about marrying well than hooking up well and the characters are friends, not sisters. But Noah, like Elizabeth, pursues all the wrong men because the guy who might be Mr. Right — Conrad Ricamora as Will — alternates between flirting and completely blowing him off.
The movie takes place on Fire Island, the beachy New York enclave where gay people, mostly men, go to get tan and laid. The action is set at two locations, a ranch house owned by a warm lesbian played by Margaret Cho, and a modern mansion peopled by sarcastic men with perfect bodies, baffling personalities and, apparently, a severe allergy to shirts.
