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Parallel Sons

Parallel Sons
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by John G. Young
Produced by Nancy Larsen
James Spione
Written by John G. Young
Starring Gabriel Mann
Laurence Mason
Music by Emile Menasche
Cinematography Matthew M. Howe
Edited by James Spione
John G. Young
Distributed by Greycat Films
Release date
  • November 7, 1996 (1996-11-07)
Running time
93 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Parallel Sons is a 1995 gay-themed drama film, written and directed by John G. Young and starring Gabriel Mann and Laurence Mason. It premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival,

Seth is a youth with artistic leanings, a rural white young man with 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, called Knowledge, attempts to rob him at gun point, but faints from illness. Seth takes the man, who is an escapee from a nearby local youthful offender boot camp. he nurses him in a family cabin 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



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