Parallel Sons

Parallel Sons is a 1995 gay-themed drama film, written and directed by John G. Young and starring Gabriel Mann and Laurence Mason. It premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. 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 boot camp. 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 Heather Gottlieb as Kristen Mott Josh Hopkins as Marty Maureen Shannon as Francine Julia Weldon as Sally Carlson Eric Granger as Police Officer