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Consenting Adult
- Director: Gilbert Cates
- Writer: Laura Z. Hobson; John McGreevey
- Producer: Ray Aghayan; Dennis E. Doty
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What an insulting pile of crap - the acting is atrocious.
Martin Sheen's career is all peaks and troughs, remember Apocalypse Now! Well, this is his nadir.
It's complete crap to say that this film is acceptable because of when it was made - BOLLOCKS.
A woman wrote the novel - what does she know about being male and gay?!?
Oooh maybe she had a gay son - no matter, she still knows nada.
McGreevey wrote the The Waltons - and his puritanical, right-wing preaching is present throughout.
Without disrespecting the dead, it is a better world without your hideous writing.
Thank you Darwin - for evolution.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and tries to understand his feelings, but his Dad would rather die - which, in the end, he really does, leaving behind a mother, her son and his friend to work those things out Jeff and his Dad had never the courage to talk about.
Cast & Characters
Marlo Thomas as Tess Lynd;
Martin Sheen as Ken Lynd;
Barry Tubb as Jeff Lynd;
Talia Balsam as Margie;
Ben Piazza as Dr. Mark Waldo;
John Terlesky as Pete Roberts;
Corinne Camacho as Claire;
Matthew Laurance as Nate;
Joseph Adams as Stu;
Richard Sargent as Pat Malone;
Thomas Peacocke as Dr. Daniels;
Moira Walley as Sue Wister;
Jeff Irvine as Hank;
Dave Sayer as Counterman;
Rebecca Staples as Maribel