In & Out

: This article is about In & Out, the movie. For the fast-food restaurant, see In-N-Out.

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In & Out, the 1997 movie starring Kevin Kline and Tom Selleck, was one of Hollywood's few attempts at a comedy "gay movie".

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The film was inspired by Tom Hanks's tearful speech when he accepted his 1994 Oscar (for his role in Philadelphia), in which he "outed" his high-school drama coach, Rawley Farnsworth, and his former classmate John Gilkerson, "two of the finest gay Americans, two wonderful men that I had the good fortune to be associated with."

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Written by gay screenwriter Paul Rudnick (who also wrote Jeffrey), and directed by Frank Oz, In & Out introduces Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline), an English literature teacher living a quiet life in Greenleaf, Indiana and his fianc?e, fellow teacher Emily (Joan Cusack).

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The film was widely noted at the time for its same-sex kiss between Kevin Kline and Tom Selleck. Though not a first for American cinema, Kline and Selleck were the most established stars to date to portray a kiss between two gay men.

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