GET YOUR STUFF

Get Your Stuff is a 2000 film about Eric and Phil an affluent gay couple living in Beverly Hills. Eric is a lawyer whilst Phil is a gay couples counselor. They want to adopt a child especially a toddler. Social worker Gloria who is also their caseworker brings along two brothers one aged 12 and the other 8. Gloria wants someone to foster them for only a night as she finds an appropriate place for them. Eric's mother is present and very excited that she finally has grandchildren. Eric and Phil decide to do Gloria a favor and accept. 12 year old T.J. is foul mouthed and hardened. He keeps hurling anti gay slurs at the couple and will not obey anything they say. T.J. also has a drinking problem. Gloria cannot find an alternative place and the kids stay on. Meanwhile T.J. finally manages to get their drunken mother on phone. She comes over to see them and ends up staying over. Phil is willing to counsel the kids' mother cat but Eric wants her out. One day Cat comes back to the house drunk with a male stranger. The stranger threatens T.J. The kid gets a gun he had stolen somewhere and threatens to shoot the stranger. After the situation is contained T.J. runs away with the car and gun driving off into town where he is reported to police who arrest him. Phil and Eric go and pick him from the police and given a last warning. Eric cannot handle this anymore and he moves out to stay with another gay man citing privacy. Meanwhile Phil had already persuaded Eric to get Cat a job at his office as a receptionist. She however keeps swearing at callers. Phil finds it hard to live without Eric and is mentally stressed at one point taking it out on the couples he is counselling. Cat finds Eric's new address through a package at his office and they drive there with Phil. After some time Eric accepts to move back home. At this point Cat is reformed and Phil is handling the kids with ease. Cat loses his rights to the kids after a court ruling. Phil and Eric decide to permanently adopt the kids to avoid breaking them up.