Our Mom's a Dyke

When Julie, Lisa, and Amy's mom decided to break up with Dad and start dating women, the girls reactions were mixed. Opening with a hilarious revision of the Brady Bunch theme song, Our Mom's a Dyke levels off pretty quickly and offers the kind of in-depth social commentary and documentary flair you'd expect to find on Geraldo. Interweaving snippets of home video with straight (no pun intended) talking head, the film briefly outlines mother Kitty's life, and then focuses on two of the three daughter's feelings about their mother's coming out. Occasionally, two different interviews are edited together in an annoying flip-flop pattern. The older daughter Julie not only offers the majority of the commentary, but does so with practiced pauses (culled from watching too much daytime television, one suspects). All becomes clear during the credits when we discover that "Julie" is, in fact, Juliette Olavarria, a film student, and we've just been treated to a project which should have been submitted for a grade not sent into general distribution. Not recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (R. Pitman)