Inlaws and Outlaws is a must see film for anyone that has ever loved, been loved, or has experienced love or loss in any way. The raw intensity of emotions...both joy and sadness hit me on many levels. The best part of the film was feeling that you were a part of everyone's story because we have all experienced love on some level. It was so nice to see love expressed between all sorts of people. This film opened me up to the possibilities of love and romance...and those doors had been closed for a long time.The most important part of all is that I feel as though the people that expressed their raw emotions either good or bad want everyone to experience at least once that kind of love....MUST SEE FOR ALL WHO EXPERIENCE LIFE AND LOVE....

Drew Emery has composed only one film, and it is quite a promising one, a thoroughly undeniable, bighearted and stimulating assessment of contemporary love and devotion. Emery's Grand Jury Prize-winning collective narrative hosts a plethora of couples at differing phases in their relationships. Some are gay. Some are straight. Some are married. Some are not. Some are together even now, others have moved on. All have captivating, intricate and reflective comments and stories about those with who they fell in love, why they fell in love and what their relationships have signified to them as they have carried on through life.Emery arranges the film so that we presume who is gay and who is with who, and does not blindside us with the results of our expectations but rather blindsides us with who we prejudged correctly and who we prejudged wide of the mark. It is the essential visual persuasive essay for those who have reservations about homosexuality and gay marriage. By the end, no matter how you feel about gays, even if you are like me and have a best friend who is gay, you will have questioned and doubted your preconceptions and your assessments of people and how easily one can write off someone entirely contrary to who they are and how the feel. And by the end, one comes to feel acquainted with and be concerned about each of people on the screen in this winning and poignant gaze at love and interaction in a universal sense.Emery's superb assemblage of love stories rises above prejudices so much more intelligently than even the most diligent and thorough documentary about religious perception of homosexuality, or marriage bans, by yanking at the tenderest core of the viewer. The palpable reality emoted by each interviewee attracts you to them, you are sometimes incorrect in your assumption of who is gay or straight, and you really don't care, which is as we should be. Uncommon for a documentary, the film makes use of the jazz- and blues- rooted musical numbers led by Felicia Loud to set the temper for each segment. Emery and his interviewees have momentously augmented life by relating that true love has no intolerance, no choice, no preference.Indeed, seldom has there been an absolute staging of true love. It presents insight into a range of affairs and viewpoints, some new and others quite traditional. The composite of oral history presents a basic outlook and understanding of relationships involving every and anyone. This barefaced observation of life is hilarious, heartbreaking and cerebral all the same. It has the ability to revolutionize and mend our culture. The world could learn so much from these subjects. Inlaws & Outlaws is an experience we all need to make the endeavor to share with friends, screen in different communities all over the country, promote and re- release.

This movie made me excited about being in my relationship of 22 years again. It was affirming and made me think about what I would have said if I had been interviewed. Thank you for the movie. I am looking forward to buying it when it comes out. I enjoyed the contrast of the different couples. The different ages and perspectives. Seeing the straight couples in with being gay and lesbian couples help show how marriage is for all of us. I can see how this would be a wonderful tool in discussion groups and in showing the legislature that they are discriminating against people by not giving us all equal rights. We can have a commitment ceremony for ourselves, but those federal benefits and public recognition is very affirming.

Documentary filmmaker Drew Emery has written and directed a richly compelling, generous and thought-provoking examination of modern day love and commitment. Inlaws and Outlaws introduces us to a smörgåsbord of couples at varying stages in their relationships. Some are gay. Some are straight. Some are married. Some are not. Some are still together, others have gone their separate ways. All have fascinating, complex and profound things to say about who they fell in love with, why they fell in love and what their relationships have meant to them as they moved through life. By the end of the movie, one comes to know and care about each of people on the screen in this engaging and at times moving look at love and relationships.