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All Over The Guy

Review by Jaime Samms

Hi there! Glad to join you tonight to talk about a favourite movie of mine, All Over the Guy. Yes, writers have movie obsessions, too. This is definitely one of mine and I’ve been talking about it since way back when. Heh. What can I say? A tough, cute, self-destructive main character is like candy to me. I’ll eat him up and ask for more. Why do I bring this movie up? Well, because I just watched it again. Also, because as I was watching it, I began to see a few similarities between the main character in the movie, Tom, and the main character I’m currently fighting with…er…working on, Jimmy.

Tom’s a lovely bundle of issues with a sharp wit and acerbic mouthiness. He likes to be the top dog, and he does it by snapping of a sharp retort, making a crude joke, and just generally being a PITA. Long before anyone thinks of actually getting close to him, he’s put them off, and he’s happy that way. At least, he thinks he is. And I just can’t seem to get enough of him, which explains a) why I watch the movie at least once a month, and b) why I’m wrting a character just like him in this latest novel.

There are differences, of course. The movie writers weren’t nearly so cruel to Tom as I am to Jimmy. My Jimmy is messed up in a lot of terrible ways. Still, they both have a self destructive streak about a mile wide. That can be hard for a person to love.

Enter Eli, Tom’s love interest in the movie, or, in my case, Cliff, who loves Jimmy in all his self destructive, mouthy, aggressive glory.

That’s the theme that moved me to create my own take: love is about more than just boy meets boy and all is right with the world. In this book, it’s about a man coming to terms with his life and himself and deciding to let someone else love him; deciding he’s worth loving.

Now, if only my book could have something like the spiffy soundtrack that comes with this movie!

Here’s hoping my Jimmy sees the light when his man Cliff decides to flood him with love.
*goes off humming….*