Nor does it make you wonder just how much director Andrew Ahn ( Driveways) and writer-producer-star Booster will lean into the specifics that characterize the popular vacation destination the movie’s restaging of the novel’s introductory society ball at a tea dance immediately lets you know exactly where you’re at. Darcy are destined eventually to get together. Part contemporary spin on Pride & Prejudice and part travelogue for the island’s real-life gay mecca known as the Pines, Fire Island never leaves any doubt as to whether its variation on Elisabeth Bennett and Mr. Will these two men, so clearly wrong for each other and yet, so clearly right for each other, end up falling in love? Do we really need to explain that this question is rhetorical? Every exchange between these two men involves awkward silences, endless bickering, or some horribly uncomfortable combination of the two. In fact, he doesn’t seem too hyped about anything else on the island either, especially Noah - never mind that they both love Alice Munro short stories.
A perpetually frowning misanthrope, he’s not crazy about this possible Charlie/Howie hook-up. And then there’s Charlie’s friend, Will (Conrad Ricamora).
