Hate Crime

Vigilante justice arrives hot on the heels of a vicious gay bashing in Texas-based filmmaker Tommy Stovall's well-intentioned but convoluted thriller. Six years into their relationship, Trey McCoy (Brian J. Smith) and his boyfriend, Robbie Levinson (Seth Peterson), have settled into a comfortable life in an idyllic Dallas suburb where no one seems troubled by having gay neighbors. In fact, Trey's parents, Barbara (Cindy Pickett) and Jim McCoy (Sean Hennigan), are so supportive of the relationship — and of Trey and Robbie's upcoming commitment ceremony — that Barbara has been urging them to adopt so she can finally become a grandmother. But it's all too good to last: ...