The read
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do. Scores higher than 77% of the 7,030 2010s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal system to adopt the child.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes78%
Metacritic60/100
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
109 audience votes
Key crew
- Travis FineDirector
- George Arthur BloomWriter
- Joey NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Travis FineWriter
Cast
- Alan CummingRudy Donatello
- Garret DillahuntPaul Fliger
- Isaac LeyvaMarco Deison
- Frances FisherJudge Meyerson
- Gregg HenryLambert
- Jamie Anne AllmanMarianna Deison
- Chris MulkeyDA Wilson
- Don FranklinLonnie Washington
- Kelli WilliamsMiss Flemming
- Alan RachinsJudge Resnick
- Mindy SterlingMiss Mills
- Doug SpearmanJohnny Boy
Stills
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Themes
californiahomophobiadrag queen1970sdrug addictionadoptiondown syndrometeenage boydistrict attorneygay parentlgbtadopted child