In 1973, teenaged Beth Bledsoe (Sophia Lillis) leav her ral Southern hometown to study at New York Universy where her beloved Uncle Frank (Pl Bettany) is a revered lerature profsor. She soon disvers that Frank is gay, and livg wh his longtime partner Walid “Wally” Naem (Peter Macdissi) -- an arrangement that he has kept secret for years. After the sudn ath of Frank's father -- Beth’s grandfather -- Frank is forced to reluctantly return home for the funeral wh Beth tow, and to fally face a long-buried trma that he has spent his entire adult life nng away om.
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WARM ‘UNCLE FRANK’ OFFERS GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE HALF A CENTURY AGO
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Uncle Frank is gay and livg New York Cy. He’s always wanted to meet a member of Frank’s fay, but whenever they’ve vised, they’ve been met by Charlotte (Brt Rentschler), a lbian whose specialty is posg as the “slutty girliend” of her gay BFF’s.
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“I’ve never met a gay person before, ” says Beth. The trailer for “Uncle Frank” mak look like “The Help, ” except this movie’s straight girl is spired and changed by the sufferg of a Magil Homosexual. That forbidn love ends the kd of tragedy rerved for gay characters s Amerin cema.
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Ball's tenncy to over-salt the melodramatic stew this way isn't new — rell Chris Cooper's character om his script for Amerin Bety, who wasn't simply an abive father, but also a snarlg homophobe, a closeted gay man, and, not for nothg, probably a Nazi. NPR's Stt Simon talks wh Pl Bettany about his starrg role Uncle Frank, a road movie about a gay man who travels home wh his niece for his father's funeral. Set the early ’70s, sts the reliably ft Pl Bettany as a gay man forced to nont the Southern fay to whom he’s stayed closeted — though they’ve managed to munite tac disapproval of his beg “different” anyhow.