Breakfast with Scot (yes, only one T) brings vibrant life into an ordinary Restoration Hardware style Toronto gay couple who get more than they bargained for out of their relationship.  When a family member (Sam's brother) cannot be located, Eric and Sam are selected to host Sam's nephew until his brother is found.  They thought they were plenty gay until the boy, Scot shows up and transforms everyone around him with glitter, Christmas music, and White Gardenia perfume. In short, this is a coming out movie, not for the flamboyant child, but for the two adults living their life on the down low. 

Sam (Ben Shenkman) has a brother (Billy) that is for all intense purposes a loser and cannot get his life together. Billy is the polar opposite of Sam’s neat and orderly former pro hockey player turned sports fanatic live in boyfriend. Billy’s ex-girlfriend died leaving her son Scot (Noah Bernett) to him—even though he’s not the father. When Child Welfare Services cannot find Billy, they decide to place Scot with Sam and his boyfriend Eric (Tom Cavanagh) until Billy is found.  Tom Cavanagh brought life to a character rarely seen in main-stream gay movies that many people can now identify with—gay sports fans.  He plays a very manly man, a former Bad Ass of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and is now a very well known and loved authority at a Canadian version of ESPN—who happens to be gay.  No one professionally knows that he and Sam are a couple and Eric is happy with that.  Both Sam and Eric thought they were plenty gay enough until Scot walks through the door and changes all the rules.  Missing his life with his druggie mother who OD’d, Scot is now thrown into a masculine world, yet clings dearly to everything about her.  This includes charm bracelets, glitter and sequins, perfume, and Christmas music—all year long!  At one point after Scot has redecorated their house Sam looks at Eric like a 1950’s Stepford Wife and whispers, “I think Scot might be gay.”      

After transforming Eric and Sam’s life and blatantly announcing his unashamed love of everything girlie, Scot notices that Eric is pulling away from their relationship who is obviously mortified by his actions and mannerisms.  In one utterly hysterical scene Eric takes Scot to a local skating rink and runs into a coworker. In the background, you see Scot twirling, spinning, and gliding around like Kristi Yamaguchi.  Your heart sinks when, embarrassed, Eric pretends not to know him.  Picking up on all the vibes and in an effort to get closer to Eric, Scot decides to befriend a neighbor bully who teaches him the basics of ice hockey.  Surprisingly, he turns into more of a bad ass than Eric.  It is important to see the growth and maturity of all characters throughout the movie and how at first they were like aliens to each other, but through Scot they all end up closer and more like a family.  One of the many things that this movie excels at is the way, as a gay person, that you can relate to Scot trying to find his way in a foreign land that doesn’t speak his language. Don't we develop that instinct early on?   

Kudos to the Toronto Maple Leaf’s for being the first professional sports franchise of any kind to allow use of their name, logo, and even their stadium in the movie. Several hockey players make cameos in one scene. This really takes the movie to the next level, adding punch to the humor and a making for a better understanding of how important it is (or how important we all think it is) for these guys to keep their relationship on the down low. 

Breakfast with Scot is the antidote to right wing claims that LGBT people aren’t fit to raise children because we’ll turn them gay. While nobody is turning anybody gay in this movie, it’s the child that brings the adults out, completely reversing perceptions about the struggles of Gay Couples, Gay Adoption, and Gay life in general.  

By the end of this movie, you will be crying for one reason or another.  It is an emotional rollercoaster that will make you want to bring all your friends to see it and to be first in line to get the DVD with the Bonus Features and Deleted Scenes.  Scot is like a little gay Mary Poppins who will make you realize that maybe you are not “The Gayest of The Gays”—or maybe you are, and that’s ok.