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Parallel Sons (1995)
Directed by John G. Young
Overview
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.
Length 93 minutes
Actors
Gabriel Mann | Laurence Mason | Murphy Guyer | Graham Alex Johnson | Heather Gottlieb | Josh Hopkins | Maureen Shannon | Julia Weldon