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| Martin Sheen | ... | Ken Lynd | |
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| Moira Walley-Beckett | ... | Sue Wister (as Moira Walley) | |
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Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. His mum eventually listens to him and tries to understand his feelings, but his dad would rather die, leaving a mother, her son, and his friend to work out the things Jeff and his dad never had the courage to discuss. Written by Christian Fieres <chris@waldfee.psycho.de>
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4 February 1985 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Following her run on TV's That Girl, Marlo Thomas had famously taken seven years off to study acting seriously, and positive critical response to her performance in Consenting Adult (1985) was confirmation that she had matured. Her efforts truly paid off the following year when she won an Emmy for her unexpectedly harrowing performance in Nobody's Child (1986). See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Movie-of-the-week about a gay young man who comes out to his parents. Martin Sheen plays the father--frustrated, embarrassed and angry--who turns his son away, but mom Marlo Thomas reaches out to her boy with love and understanding. TV not tackling taboo territory, but taking baby steps (still); it's about as sexually frank as the glossy coming-out opus "Making Love" from 1982 (and with just a whiff of a mention of "that disease" that dare not speak its name). Writer John McGreevey, adapting Laura Z. Hobson's novel, keeps shifting the narrative back to the parents--ostensibly because Sheen and Thomas are the movie's stars. Naturally, the straight-laced couple would be shocked and confused by their son's revelation (that's only natural), but just whose story is this?