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- Paul Bettany and Sophia Lillis star in writer-director Alan Ball's "Uncle Frank," a melodrama set in late 1960s/early 1970s about a closeted gay NYU professor and his South Carolina family.
Nov 25, 2020 · Paul Bettany and Sophia Lillis star in writer-director Alan Ball's "Uncle Frank," a melodrama set in late 1960s/early 1970s about a closeted gay NYU professor and his South Carolina family.
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Nov 25, 2020 · But writer/director Alan Ball's achingly well-intentioned melodrama Uncle Frank, which premieres on Amazon Prime on Wednesday, November 24th, has even more to answer for. Because it's not...
- Glen Weldon
Jan 25, 2020 · At this early point in “Uncle Frank,” a rare crowdpleasing dramedy about the pains of self-denial, the movie brims with as much potential as its bright young heroine.
Nov 26, 2020 · It’s also an only-on-the-surface-shallow melodrama about coming to terms with your Southern family and yourself. Neat trick, eh? Not really.
- Bill Goodykoontz
Jan 26, 2020 · Take Alan Ball’s “Uncle Frank,” a period piece that finds a way to exploit both closeted sexuality and alcoholism in one soapy film. There are some decent, earnest performances in here, but they’re difficult to see through all the clichés, spread out in front of you like you’re playing melodrama bingo.
Feb 12, 2021 · Writer and Director Alan Ball never allows his intensely emotional story to stray into syrupy melodrama. And we as an audience are the benefactors of his restraint. “Uncle Frank” speaks movingly and eloquently to living the life that you choose to live.
Nov 23, 2020 · It’s a whirlwind of melodrama that, before arriving at the obligatory happy ending, harkens back to the film’s initial quietude when Beth, sitting across from Frank at a diner, asks him, “Did you always know you were gay?”
