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Twilight of the Golds

Garry Marshall (Actor), Faye Dunaway (Actor), Ross Kagan Marks (Director) | Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: DVD
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Based on a flop Broadway play, this film was made for Showtime but given a theatrical release, with not much more success than the stage version. Still, it's an intriguing idea, even if the dramaturgy tends toward the didactic. The jumping-off point here is the scientific discovery that homosexuality is genetic--and that the gene can be detected in prenatal testing. This disrupts the Gold family, where Dad (Garry Marshall) barely tolerates the homosexuality of his son (Brendan Fraser). When pregnant daughter Jennifer Beals, who is married to a geneticist (Jon Tenney), has the test and discovers that her fetus will be gay, she triggers a family debate that pits parents (including mom Faye Dunaway) against son, raising the question of whether they would have aborted Fraser if they'd known he would be gay. Good acting can't overcome heavy-handed dialogue, though Fraser and Marshall are particularly good. --Marshall Fine

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5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic, outstanding film!! did I mention it's good?, Oct 18 2003
This review is from: Twilight of the Golds (DVD)
The other reviews describe the story line and what I would have to say beyond the basics is how fantastic every aspect of this film is. The acting in top quality, the production quality is excellant and the story is magnificent. It was refreshing to see a movie that is not about HIV, coming out, sexual over activity or hiding who you are. The gay rolls are played with confidence and honor. A top quality roll model for expanding the concepts of what it is to be gay. I give this film the highest marks and strongly recommend it to everyone!! Oscar quality 100% in my humble opinion.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Much better than I expected, July 11 2002
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Le chien (Paris, France) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Twilight of the Golds (DVD)
I usually buy lots of "gay" DVDs from [here] at the same time, to view them at my home in Paris, France.

I must confess that "The Twilight of the Golds" was the last DVD of the set I received that I chose to play. I feared it might too intellectual or not fun at all.

I was wrong! The acting is good and the topics still relevant : if genetics could determine that your future child wil be gay, would keep it or not ?

It is not over melo-dramatic and the subject is treated with sensitivity.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Yikes, July 13 2002
This review is from: Twilight of the Golds (DVD)
Bought it. Watched it. Returned it.

I am a huge Brendan Fraser fan and have no idea how he was talked into doing this film. It's nothing more than a 30-minute melodramatic TV soap opera that's been expanded (painfully) into an hour and a half of inexplicable and often unbearable whining.

Fraser's acting is (as always) first-rate. But the film never bothers to justify its ridiculous premise that conceiving a gay progeny is somehow an earth-shattering tragedy. It also never explains why or how any of the characters would be justified in supporting the abortion of a pregnancy because the baby *might* turn out to be gay. So what we're left with is a bunch of incredibly shallow and unlikeable characters with terminally pained expressions debating whether to kill an unborn baby.

In certain cultures homosexuality is taboo and not dealt with very well (or at all), and I guess if you're, for example, a Jewish or Italian Catholic family with major phobia issues towards gay people then you might "get" this movie. But otherwise it's truly ridiculous and already horribly dated.

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