But it exposes an unpainted section on the woodwork, which Sean wryly calls “the vicious circle.” He heads to the hardware store for paint, intending to handle what he thinks will be a small patchwork job himself, but soon discovers that the entire deck will need sanding and repainting.įrom among a bunch of Latino day laborers who congregate near the hardware store each morning, Sean hires Ernesto (Patino). It emerges that Sean is still hurting from the end of a long relationship with his partner Carlos six months earlier, and the removal of a potted tree on the deck of his Eagle Rock home is like the final surgical step in a long and painful detachment process. While he tries to brush it off as acid reflux, his news producer boss Ash (an underused Wendi McLendon-Covey) tells Sean to take some time off, while his caring co-worker friend Suzie (D’Arcy Carden) urges him to talk to a therapist.
#PAPI CHULO GAY MOVIE#
The movie opens with local cable weatherman Sean (Bomer) having an on-air meltdown during a live broadcast, the tears coming as he warns of the Santa Ana winds moving in to prolong the heatwave. That gives it timeliness in the current anti-immigration climate. Without hitting any larger agenda too bluntly, Butler’s screenplay also touches on class differences, ethnicity and the role of the Latino immigrant population as an intrinsic part of the fabric of American life, particularly in a sprawling multicultural city like L.A.
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