Torch Song Trilogy

All Arnold wants out of life is an apartment he can afford, a job he actually likes and a relationship that works. Of course, a little luck couldn't hurt, either. Tony award-winning actor and playwrite Harvey Fierstein (Bullets Over Broadway) re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaption of the smash Broadway play Torch Song Trilogy. A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, Torch Song Trilogy chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him. From Arnold's hilarious steps toward domestic bliss with a reluctant school teacher (Brian Kerwin, Murphy's Romance), to his first truley promising love affair with a young fashion model (Matthew Broderick) Arnold's greatest challenge remains his complicated relationship with his mother (Anne Bancroft). But armed with a keenly developed sense of humor and oftentimes piercing wit, Arnold conmtinues to test the commonly accepted terms of endearment - and endurance - in a universally affecting story that confirms that happiness is well worth carrying a torch for.