October 14, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Black Box at the Rose Wagner
Suggested Price $15: Pay-What-You-Can model
English, Feature, Fiction (Dramatic etc), Live Action, Not Rated

The Mattachine Family

Starring Nico Tortorella (Younger; Walking Dead: World Beyond), Juan Pablo Di Pace (Fuller House, Mamma Mia!), and Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek). The Mattachine Family picks up at a critical moment in the life of our protagonist, Thomas (Tortorella). The child he and his husband, Oscar (Di Pace), fostered has been reunited with his birth mother and Oscar’s long-stagnant career as an actor has picked up and sent him to Michigan for months of filming. In the bewildering lurch of change and loss, Thomas embarks on a journey to figure out what he wants from life and what it means to be gay in 2021, when so many possibilities have opened up for people who grew up thinking that marriage and children were closed off to them. At its heart, this is a story about family, about the bonds we form with friends and lovers and children, and the way those relationships define us, elude us, and perplex us.

Directed by: Andy Vallentine
Runtime: 99 minutes
Year: 2023
Country: USA
Content advisory: Rear Nudity
Language: English
Subtitles: No Subtitles – Film is in English OR is non-vocal
Cast: Nico Tortorella, Juan Pablo Di Pace, Emily Hampshire, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Heather Matarazzo

Official Selection:

2023 Seattle International Film Festival
2023 Frameline Film Festival
2023 Outfest Los Angeles

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