WEIRDER even thant Memento is Miguel Arteta's Chuck & Buck, a gay stalker comedy on the theme of obsession.

Very straight Chuck (Chris Weitz) and bent Buck (scriptwriter Mike White) were childhood best pals in 1973, since when smooth Chuck has climbed the LA record company executive ladder and secured the textbook fiancee. Buck has stopped in '73, never leaving home, still sucking lollipops and thinking like a child, except on matters of sex.

Eighteen years since he last saw him, his feelings for Chuck are re-activated when his old friend unwillingly returns home for the funeral of Buck's mother, whereupon Buck follows him to LA, tracks his every move and invades his perfect life. Innocent looking he may be, but Buck is stranger than fiction, his behaviour extreme, not least writing a vengeful play to be performed at the theatre opposite Chuck's office.

Buck's bluntness making you cringe one moment, laugh the next. This unsettling black comedy could not be further removed from American dumb comedy, and is all the better for being as much an oddball as Buck himself.