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The Twilight of the Golds (1997)
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Based on a flop Broadway play, this film was made for Showtime but given a theatrical release, with not much more success than the stage version. Still, it's an intriguing idea, even if the dramaturgy tends toward the didactic. The jumping-off point here is the scientific discovery that homosexuality is genetic--and that the gene can be detected in prenatal testing. This disrupts the Gold family, where Dad (Garry Marshall) barely tolerates the homosexuality of his son (Brendan Fraser). When pregnant daughter Jennifer Beals, who is married to a geneticist (Jon Tenney), has the test and discovers that her fetus will be gay, she triggers a...
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| The Twilight of the Golds Movie Review by T (2/7/2008) |
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This movie gives me chills, because it's not just sci-fi - it's here. When genetic testing reveals that her unborn son might have a predilection to homosexuality, a woman becomes the focus for family upheaval. Pulled between her rather homo-intolerant family and husband, and the gay brother she loves, Susanne Stein finds...
(complete The Twilight of the Golds review by T)
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