The rare spirit of character-driven, independent American movies lives on in writer-director Tim Kirkman's beautifully acted, structurally sophisticated heart-tugger. Based on the true story of a North Carolina mother attempting to locate the son she gave up for adoption years earlier, Kirkman's film uses three narratives to tell a single story about motherhood lost and found. Kure Beach, N.C., 1999: Gay motel owner George (Michael Kelly) befriends Mark (Kip Pardue), a young, HIV+ drifter who left his conservative-Christian adoptive parents at age 17, when he realized that they would never be able to accept his homosexuality. Mark has come to Kure Beach to help prote...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
95 mins