Parallel Sons

Nov 7, 1996

1h 33m

★ 4.6

Overview

Seth is a youth with artistic leanings, 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 attempts to rob him at gun point but faints from illness. Seth takes the man, Knowledge, an escapee from a nearby prison, to a family cabin where he nurses him 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.

Genres

Drama

Romance

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Cast

Seth Carlson

Gabriel Mann

Knowledge Johnson

Laurence Mason

Sheriff Mott

Murphy Guyer

Peter Carlson

Graham Alex Johnson

Kristen Mott

Heather Gottlieb

Marty

Josh Hopkins

Francine

Maureen Shannon

Sally Carlson

Julia Weldon

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