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On his family's farm in rural Iowa, young Jack Gudmanson is wrestling with his sexual identity, not an easy thing to do in the macho world of the Midwest. But things become clearer for him when he discovers via a rusty old lunch box filled with gay magazines that his father, killed in Vietnam, led a double life down on the farm. But as liberating as the discovery is for Jack, it is painful for his grandfather and mother, who have tried for years to keep it a family secret. Now Jack must decide whether to share this new information with his younger sister or allow it to remain buried a while longer.
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Most underrated coming of age movie - changed my life for the better when I was a pre-teen. I watched it again recently and it’s still so good. Dunno why it’s not gayer though ?
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growing up queer in a small conservative town is such a weird feeling. i never fit in. people would talk about how weird being queer was and i just had to stand there, silently listening to how awful i supposedly was.
i watched this when i was thirteen and it genuinely changed my whole view on how i was. maybe i was normal. maybe it was society that wasn't.
i could ramble on this for so long about how much this movie changed my life and shaped it.
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