In terms of gay-related movies, Netflix’s The Boys In The Band and the upcoming Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci drama Supernova have prompted many headlines and anticipation. A trailer for another fall movie slipped out yesterday and we’re already gagging to see it.
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Uncle Frank is written and directed by Alan Ball (creator of Six Feet Under and True Blood). The Amazon original will premiere on the streaming service for Thanksgiving.
Set in 1973, the movie follows teenager Beth Bledsoe (Sophia Lillis, of It and Sharp Objects fame), who leaves her Baptist family in the rural south to go to New York to study. There she turns up on the doorstep of her Uncle Frank (British actor Paul Bettany), a literary professor, to surprise him.
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She’s greeted by his ‘roommate’, Walid ‘Wally’ Nadeem (Peter Macdissi). Beth quickly discovers that instead of roommates, the men are gay and have been together as a couple for the previous ten years.
When Frank finds out his father, Beth’s grandad, has passed, he has to travel back home for the funeral, with Beth and Wally in tow. Returning back to the south stirs up painful memories of his homophobic upbringing, and questions over what to reveal about his life in New York.
The movie explores the homophobia so common at the time, and the torturous impact it had on families. However, as the trailer shows, there also some laugh-out-loud moments along the way.
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The movie also stars Judy Greer, Margo Martindale, Lois Smith and Steve Zahn. It received its world premiere in January at the Sundance Film Festival, and on the back of that, already has a decent 75% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. It comes to Amazon Prime on November 26.
Jim
Any move with Lois Smith can’t be too bad, but isn’t this movie a decade or more late?
Man About Town
Late for what?
michael_totzke
Yeah. late for what? What an odd comment. Movies constantly mine the past. You got a problem with that?
Josh447
The trailer got me. I’m so there for this movie.
mikeTigg
Me too. Can’t wait…
michael_totzke
Looks very strong. And what a cast.
GorgeousNotGeorge
Unfortunately, with the Conservative Supreme Ct. the GOP will be taking us back to this times. Unless you live in a urban environment, you will be hiding your true self. Those of us that are older know the difference. Sure you might have your freedoms now, but this GOP has only benefitted White Men and women, POC and LGBTQ will be suffering for the next generations. LogCabinRepublicans are complicit in destroying any rights we all have.
rray63
Not to worry George, Biden is guaranteed to win. Now, what should we do with all the deplorable white people? Ship them to another country, gas them, firing squads, which one? I mean figure out sixty percent or so of 330million. Will we have to burn the bodies to avoid plagues? Is there a test that absolves LGBTQ whites or liberal whites so they won’t be executed on purpose? No, I’m not a troll but damn if I can by this ALL whites are horrid racists. Or even most. So let me know what you think is the best solution? OH, by the way, will you kill their children as well for already being corrupted?
barryaksarben
rray you are either a troll or the dumbest gay person alive. what GNG was saying and I agree with him 100% is that as older gay men we have seen the future in our past. The large number of extremely conservative (unqualified ) judges by this administration will not be fair when they are presented with cases brought by the American Taliban challenging many of the laws that protect our rights and the rights of the poor, people of color and women. WIth AMY coney barratt’s nom we are already hearing their gloating about getting rid of ROE v WADE and OBERGFAL to name just a couple. NO we can not kill or send the racist white people to the moon but we wont even put them into camps or deny them their equal rights something many of them would be only too glad to do to us. I dont know why I am wasting my time on you . From all of your comments you are obviously a conservative troll. B y the way you do know that we are not like Trump followers. You can not lie to us and think that just repeating it will somehow convince us that it isnt a bald faced lie. we are not the inbreds that the right depends on. We have seen their hate distorted faces which they try to hide until someone like trump gives them permission to show their petty childish ignorant beliefs. Maybe go find a different sight to try to spread their sh*t
michael_totzke
Looks fantastic …