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Parallel Sons
- Director: John G. Young
- Writer: John G. Young
- Producer: Nancy Larsen; James Spione
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The packaging is APPALLING - it looks like a cheap porn film.
Ignore it - this film has heart.
America has been very good at belittling its residents through TV shows, especially country folk.
Parallel Sons tries to put it right - a difficult and noble task.
Despite its meagre budget, Young has made a fine (and sadly forgotten) film.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Gabriel Mann as Seth Carlson;
Laurence Mason as Knowledge Johnson;
Murphy Guyer as Sheriff Mott;
Graham Alex Johnson as Peter Carlson;
Heather Gottlieb as Kristen Mott;
Josh Hopkins as Marty;
Maureen Shannon as Francine;
Julia Weldon as Sally Carlson