Film Independent Members and guests are invited to join us for a live Q&A with Uncle Frank writer/director Alan Ball.

In 1973, teenaged Beth Bledsoe (Sophia Lillis) leaves her rural Southern hometown to study at New York University where her beloved Uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) is a revered literature professor. She soon discovers that Frank is gay, and living with his longtime partner Walid “Wally” Nadeem (Peter Macdissi) – an arrangement that he has kept secret for years. After the sudden death of Frank’s father – Beth’s grandfather – Frank is forced to reluctantly return home for the funeral with Beth in tow, and to finally face a long-buried trauma that he has spent his entire adult life running away from.

Writer-director Alan Ball’s heartfelt and hilarious road movie travels from the bohemian scene of post-Stonewall New York City to rural South Carolina, following Frank’s painful journey from hitting rock bottom to acceptance and forgiveness and, finally, reintegration into his family and into life itself.

Uncle Frank is available on Amazon Prime Video on November 25.

 
2020, 95 minutes, color | Written by Alan Ball | Directed by Alan Ball | Starring Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, Judy Greer, Steve Zahn, Lois Smith, with Margo Martindale and Stephen Root | Produced by Peter Macdissi, Michael Costigan, Jay Van Hoy, Stephanie Meurer, Bill Block | Executive Produced by Bob Osher, Andrew Golov, Christopher Tricarico, Josh Peters, Isaac Ericson

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