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==External links==
==External links==
* {{imdb title|0114089|Parallel Sons}}
* {{Imdb title|0114089|Parallel Sons}}


[[Category:1995 films]]
[[Category:1995 films]]

Revision as of 22:09, 30 December 2009

Parallel Sons
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn G. Young
Written byJohn G. Young
Produced byNancy Larsen
James Spione
StarringGabriel Mann
Laurence Mason
CinematographyMatthew M. Howe
Edited byJames Spione
John G. Young
Music byEmile Menasche
Distributed byGreycat Films
Release date
7 November 1996
Running time
93 min.
Country United States
LanguageEnglish

Parallel Sons is a 1995 gay-themed drama film, written and directed by John G. Young and starring Gabriel Mann and Laurence Mason. Parallel Sons premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival,

Plot

Seth is a youth with artistic leanings, a rural white young man with 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, called Knowledge, attempts to rob him at gun point, but faints from illness. Seth takes the man, who is an escapee from a nearby local youthful offender boot camp. he nurses him in a family cabin 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

Nominations

  • Parallel Sons won the Audience Award for "Best Feature" at the Frameline Film Festival (the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival).
  • It was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival.