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Plot

Seth is a youth with artistic leanings, a rural white young man with a fascination with black pop culture, and a dead-end life in an Adirondack village. He's alternatively sensitive and brutal with Kristen, who wants a sexual relationship that he explosively rejects. Late one night, as he's closing the cafe where he works, a young black man, called Knowledge, attempts to rob him at gun point, but faints from illness. Seth takes the man, who is an escapee from a nearby local youthful offender

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. He nurses him in a family cabin and they begin a tentative friendship. When the sheriff learns of Seth's harboring a fugitive, a confrontation looms. Relationships between fathers and their children dominate the subplots

Cast

* Gabriel Mann as Seth Carlson * Laurence Mason as Knowledge Johnson * Murphy Guyer as Sheriff Mott * Graham Alex Johnson as Peter Carlson *

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as Kristen Mott * Josh Hopkins as Marty * Maureen Shannon as Francine *

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as Sally Carlson *

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as Police Officer

Awards and nominations

*Won the Audience Award for "Best Feature" at the Frameline Film Festival (the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival).San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
1995 Audience Award Best Feature listing from IMDb *Won Grand Jury Award at Outfest (L.A. Outfest).Outfest
1995 Grand Jury Award listing from IMDb *Won Best Feature Award at Florida Film Festival.Florida Film Festival
1995 Best Feature Award listing from IMDb *Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at

.Sundance Film Festival
1995 Grand Jury Prize Dramatic Competition listing from IMDb

References

External links

* 1995 films 1995 LGBT-related films American LGBT-related films LGBT-related drama films 1995 drama films 1996 drama films 1996 films 1990s English-language films 1990s American films {{LGBT-drama-film-stub