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Added on 7 December 2020 / On Amazon Prime

Uncle Frank (2020)

IMDB IMDb rating: 7.3/10

Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes rating: 77%

In 1973, teenaged Beth Bledsoe (Sophia Lillis) leaves her rural Southern hometown to study at New York University where her beloved Uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) is a revered literature professor. She soon discovers that Frank is gay, and living with his longtime partner Walid “Wally” Nadeem (Peter Macdissi), an arrangement that he has kept secret for years.

After the sudden death of Frank’s father, Beth’s grandfather, Frank is forced to reluctantly return home for the funeral with Beth in tow, and to finally face a long-buried trauma that he has spent his entire adult life running away from.

Writer-director Alan Ball’s heartfelt and hilarious road movie travels from the bohemian scene of post-Stonewall New York City to rural South Carolina, following Frank’s painful journey from hitting rock bottom to acceptance and forgiveness and, finally, reintegration into his family and into life itself.

NME calls Uncle Frank, “an evocative slice of retro Americana and a highly entertaining road movie.”

More road-trip series and movies:

  • Lovecraft Country
  • Green Book

More movies about returning home:

  • Manchester by the Sea
  • August: Osage County

More with Sophia Lillis:

  • Sharp Objects

More with Paul Bettany:

  • Journey’s End
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