Fire Island (2022)
Joel Kim Booster’s comedy about a group of gay friends on a week’s holiday in Fire Island Pines.
The novel’s economy of who can afford whom works as well on a gay beach weekend as in a Hertfordshire ballroom.
You want a sharp modern comedy that maps the novel on purpose.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the sisters (as chosen family), the snob, the charmer who is lying, and a matriarch who is half Mrs. Bennet and half Mr. Bennet.
Changes: the setting to a modern queer holiday, and the marriage market to a week of parties, money and class.
Written by and starring Joel Kim Booster, directed by Andrew Ahn. Each friend stands in for one of Austen’s characters: Noah for Elizabeth, Will for Darcy, Charlie for Bingley, Dex for Wickham.
Whose story is it?
Noah’s, played by Joel Kim Booster, who wrote it; Conrad Ricamora plays Will, the Darcy.
How much time does it ask?
A feature, 105 minutes. Directed by Andrew Ahn. Rated R.
Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang, Conrad Ricamora, James Scully, Matt Rogers, Margaret Cho.
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: Official page — Searchlight Pictures · Find where it’s streaming — JustWatch
More ways into Longbourn: Pride and Prejudice (1940) · Pride and Prejudice (BBC, 1980) · Pride and Prejudice (BBC, 1995)