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Parallel Sons (1995)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Seth is a youth with artistic leanings, a fascination with Black pop culture, and a dead-end life in an Adirondack village. He's alternatively sensitive and brutal with Kristen, who wants a sexual relationship that he explosively rejects. Late one night, as he's closing the cafe where he works, a young Black man attempts to rob him at gun point but faints from illness. Seth takes the man, Knowledge, an escapee from a nearby prison, to a family cabin where he nurses him and they begin a tentative friendship. When the sheriff learns of Seth's harboring a fugitive, a confrontation looms. Relationships between fathers and their children dominate the subplots.
Style:
tense, sentimental, sincere, rough, serious, realistic
Plot:
gay, lgbt, interracial relations, gay african american, small town, friendship, friends, parents and children, fugitives, gays and lesbians, social differences, society, opposites attract, on the run, countryside, bittersweet, small town life, unlikely partners, homosexual, african american, escaped prisoner, young love, gay interest, escaped convict, romance
Time:
90s
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