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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0712267982127
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Strand Releasing
Manufacturer: Strand Releasing
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Strand Releasing
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 06, 2005
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 29065
Studio: Strand Releasing
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
Editorial Review:
Description:
An intelligent and haunting depiction of sexual passion and the interplay between desire and identification, John G. Young`s first feature is a festival favorite that`s been three years waiting for a release. Set in a redneck, upstate town, it`s about a white teenager who`s totally black-identified - does his blond hair in dreads, plays hip-hop, makes the Autobiography of Malcolm X his bible - although he`s never met a black person. His life takes a turn when he falls in love with Knowledge, a young black man who`s been wounded escaping from prison.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Really???
Completely unbelievable story. The characters were completely opposite of each other and never would have attracted in real life. If you have nothing else to do I say watch this movie.
Rating: - Color-Blind Love
"Parallel Sons"
Color-Blind Love
Amos Lassen
Not many gay films have black actors in leading roles and to finally have a good film that does is almost reason to rejoice. "Parallel Sons; is the story of Seth, a youth with artistic leanings and a fascination with Black pop culture, living in a village in the Adirondack Mountains. He has a friend, Kristin with whom he alternates sensitivity and brutality. One night late as he is closing the café where he works, ... Read More
Rating: - Unrealistic
I bought this title because of some good reviews on Amazon, but found it generally contrived and hard to take seriously. The production values were decent and the setting was quite beautiful, but the direction was lacking and the characters were very underdeveloped. I really had to stretch myself to not see most of the characters as cliches or unknowns. I'd have to be really bored to watch it again.
Rating:  - Exceptional in places, shaky in others
This is an interesting and somewhat fresh look at race and gay love done with some flair and ambition. The casting and editing are pretty good and this is a stong effort overall.
However, I can't get past the story that claims that a young boy, white but mostly Black-identified, falls in love with a convict, prison-escapee Black man, who falls in love with him. Now I'm a romantic, but it was real hard for me to believe, and this film does nothing to make it seem real. (We are expected ... Read More
Rating: - A Sweet but Tragic Story
Seth Carlson (Gabriel Mann) is 20, attractive and bored with his life in what appears to be upstate New York. Living with his younger sister and father-- his mother has died of cancer-- and working in a dead end job at a local restaurant, he longs to escape this life and move to New York City to study art. And he loves all things African American; he has blond dreadlocks and listens to rap music although he has never known a black person. Then he befriends a young African American male named Knowlege ... Read More
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