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Our Sons

Country: USA, Language: English, 96 mins

  • Director: John Erman
  • Writer: William Hanley; Micki Dickoff
  • Producer: Micki Dickoff; Robert Greenwald

CGiii Comment

You have to admire this for a few reasons:

(1) when it was made,

(2) the cast,

(3) it's a TV movie,

(4) the names involved...

It tries very hard to get its message across but it comes over as a little too preachy - employing no subtlety whatsoever.

Homophobia gets slapped in the face by Julie Andrews - it can only happen in the movies.

This is important though, big names, big issues - it needn't have used the sledgehammer approach...but, maybe, for the time, it was the only way to get the message across.

Worth seeing.


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The(ir) Blurb...

A young man (Donald) is dying of AIDS. His lover (James) asks his mother (Audrey) to go to Fayetteville, Arkansas and tell Donald's mother, who has been estranged from her son for years.

Cast & Characters

Ann-Margret as Luanne Barnes;
Julie Andrews as Audrey Grant;
Hugh Grant as James;
Zeljko Ivanek as Donald Barnes;
Tony Roberts as Harry;
Hal England as Charles;
Loyda Ramos as Patient's Wife;
Annabelle Weenick as Nurse;
Lisa Blake Richards as Female Bar Patron;
Essex Smith as Trailer Park Manager;
Frank Whiteman as George;
Elizabeth Austin as Sally;
George Whiteman as Male Bar Patron;
Geoff Stradling as Pianist