Prodigal Sons

About This Film

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Festival Year: 2009
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Run Time: 86 Minutes
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Film Type: Feature
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Animated: No
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Countr(ies): USA
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Language: English
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English Subtitles: No
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Captions: None

Film Overview

Once upon a time there was a family with three sons. Like all growing children they needed to figure out what their roles in life would be. The adopted oldest son Marc acted like a clown. The second son Paul was the golden boy – the good-looking high school quarterback who always got the cutest girls. The third son Todd grew up in his brothers' shadow, playing the girl in their home movies. PRODIGAL SONS is a true-life family drama with some unbelievable twists. Todd is a gay architect. Paul is a woman – filmmaker Kimberly Reed, who comes back to her high school reunion to confront her past and mend her relationship with Marc. And Marc, whose behavior is getting more erratic since suffering a head injury at the age of 21, is the grandson of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth (as revealed through his search for his biological parents). When they get together at Christmas, sparks begin to fly. PRODIGAL SONS is the bittersweet chronicle of one unusual family's attempts to reconcile their differences. – B.B.