Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/30/2023
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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TPUUF
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Friday is the last day of this year’s Pride month and, we will be viewing the 1972 made-for-TV movie “That Certain Summer.” Widely considered the first TV film to take a mature and non-remonstrative approach to the subject of homosexuality. Please consider joining us to watch this breakthrough film, learn some of the thoughts of those responsible for the film making it to television screens, and join a discussion of our thoughts on the film and the fifty years since it was shown. A brief synopsis of the film follows.
THAT CERTAIN SUMMER (TV) (1972 USA)
A teenager must deal with his divorced father’s homosexuality in this made-for-tv movie written by the Emmy-winning writing team of Richard Levinson and William Link (Columbo, Mannix). Hal Holbrook stars as a middle-aged divorced man, whose son played by Scott Jacoby cannot fathom the reason for his parents’ split. During a summer visit, Jacoby meets his father’s much younger “best friend,” played by Martin Sheen. Holbrook hedges, but finds he can no longer hold back the truth from his son: Sheen is Holbrook’s male lover.