Parallel Sons

Seemingly out of nowhere comes this thoughtful and remarkably mature first film by director John G. Young. Twenty-year-old Seth Carlson (Gabriel Mann) is a white B-boy wanna-be whose blonde dreadlocks, hip-hop style and love of gangsta rap and Malcolm X set him apart from the other residents of his white-bread, upstate New York town. Seth is also gay, and wants nothing more than to shake the stifling conformity of his small town, move to New York City and study art. His life takes a unforeseen detour the night he comes face to face with Knowledge (Laurence Mason), a real-life African-American who's just escaped from a nearby correctional facility. Intrigued, Seth hid...