Movie Review: ‘Joe Bell,’ Starrg Mark Wahlberg as Dad of Gay Son – Rollg Stone

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• FLAWED BUT COMPLITED: ‘JOE BELL’ STARS MARK WAHLBERG AS A DAD ON A JOURNEY OF REGRET OVER HIS DEAD, GAY SON
• 'BEGNERS': A SON'S 'LOVE LETTER' TO HIS GAY FATHER
• THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’

FLAWED BUT COMPLITED: ‘JOE BELL’ STARS MARK WAHLBERG AS A DAD ON A JOURNEY OF REGRET OVER HIS DEAD, GAY SON

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A gay man fds himself torn between two sgle lovers who happen to be father and son. A gay man fds himself torn between two sgle lovers who happen to be father and productn, box office & pany PhotosMore like thisReview CheyGreat ia. In January 2013, a gay 15-year-old named Jad Bell, om La Gran, Oregon, hanged himself om a piece of playground equipment and, after beg kept on life support for several weeks, died early Febary that year.

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'BEGNERS': A SON'S 'LOVE LETTER' TO HIS GAY FATHER

A gay son who ss on his father’s talks to the public and gets to offer his own criqu, potg out the ways that Joe has settled to a pattern of preachg to the choir: The people showg up at his talks, particularly once he’s gaed notoriety, already know what he’s about, and are already at mimum prepared to hear what he has to say. But what about the random homophob biker gear that Joe overhears spoutg sual hatred a der, or the people — there are many of them — who have nothg to offer Joe but nontatn? And the qutns Jad’s ghost pos early the movie — of Joe’s tenncy to avoid the harr battl, failg to nont the homophob he enunters the wild favor of preachg to the choirs of people drawn to his onle phenomenon and, th, plsibly already sympathetic — are never really renciled by eher Joe or the movie.

“It’s hard to stand strong plac where there are more church than there are gays, ” a man tendg a gay bar tells Joe after sharg his own g-out story. “I never let him know was OK, ” says Joe, his enunter wh the kdly p who feeds him, a man whose own son, Joe learns, is also gay. The story revolv around Oliver (Ewan McGregor) as he als wh his father (Christopher Plummer) g out late life as a gay man, as well as his ath shortly afterward, terspersed wh Oliver's own burgeong romantic relatnship.

THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’

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In April 2013, Joe Bell left his home La Gran, a small town the northeast rner of Oregon, to walk across the untry honor of his 15-year-old son, Jad, who had died Febary a few weeks after attemptg and his wife, Lola Lathrop, told lol and natnal news outlets at the time that Jad was bullied for beg gay, both onle and at school.

He was the only out gay stunt at La Gran High School. In addn to beg the only out gay stunt at his school, he was also the only boy on the cheerleadg squad, and Bell told Salon 2013 that he was bullied for said he uld relate to Jad and his story, bee he was also bullied growg up Texas.

19, 2010, Seth Walsh, a gay 13-year-old livg Southern California, died by suici after beg bullied. Three days later, Tyler Clementi, a gay stunt at Rutgers Universy-New Bnswick, killed himself after beg rerd on a webm kissg another man. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web In My Fay | Official Trailer [HD] | NetflixWatch onAll My Fay follows a gay man and his partner who chose to have children via-surrogacy.

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