Kan-Kan, Saturday, November 11, 3:00pm | Streaming November 13-15
THE MATTACHINE FAMILY
This nuanced, gentle, and ultimately heartfelt dramedy explores the notion of connection through the experiences of a loving gay couple who discover they have differing ideas about what makes a family.
The Mattachine Family finds a fiercely in love gay couple, photographer Thomas (Nico Tortorella, Younger, The Walking Dead: World Beyond) and actor Oscar (Juan Pablo Di Pace, Mamma Mia!), maintaining their relationship through steadily remaining fiercely in love through geographical setbacks, after their foster son returns to live with his birth mother. Just as Oscar's acting career begins to rise, Thomas enters something of a pre-midlife existential crisis. As the couple begins to have differing views and desires around what a potential family looks like together moving forward, Thomas leans heavily on a close-knit core of friends for comfort and meaning through it all.
An all-star supporting cast including Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek), Carl Clemons-Hopkins (Hacks), Cloie Wyatt Taylor (Partners in Rhyme), Jake Choi (ABC’s Single Parents), and Heather Matarazzo (Welcome to the Dollhouse) round out The Mattachine Family’s queer power ensemble.
Directed by Andy Vallentine | USA | 2023 | 99 Minutes
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