Pre-AIDS gay TV-drama about young man who comes out to his parents. The father, frustrated, embarrassed and angry, turns away, but the mom reaches out to her boy. A bit of an improvement on taboo territory over the 1982 coming-out opus "Making Love", which didn't allow itself to explore homosexual feelings, just embalmed embraces. This one is brave enough to show that gay people have desires just like everyone else. Unfortunately, the piece keeps going back to the parents in question(understandable, since Marlo Thomas and Martin Sheen are the stars here). It angered me though to see so much emphasis on the mother being "the courageous one", noble enough to offer her hand in friendship, and reassuring when she calls at the end with happiness in her voice and heart. Naturally the parents would be feeling guilty and responsible and ashamed(that's only natural),
2006-06-18
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