Saturday, March 10, 2012

In the Family

We checked out the film In the Family last night at the SFIAAFF and it was epic in the most intimate way. Regional dialects and accents are a curiosity to me (Coen Bros come to mind), and actor/director Patrick Wang takes a seemingly simple Tennessee accents and paints a character so profoundly charming and stalwort that you just want to inherit the pains of his predicament.
In the town of Martin, Tennessee, Chip Hines, a precocious six year old, has only known life with his two dads, Cody and Joey. And a good life it is. When Cody dies suddenly in a car accident, Joey and Chip struggle to find their footing again. Just as they begin to, Cody's will reveals that he name...
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