Growing up gay in the south, a high school girl seeks the help of a therapist to come out to her family in this hilarious and touching coming-of-gay story
Drew Van Steenbergen’s Alone With People tells the story of Andie, a high-school girl growing up gay in Georgia and her quest to come to terms with who she is. With the help of an open-minded therapist and their ensuing conversations, which range from funny to revealingly honest, Andie finds the strength to come out to the members of her family, one by one, to varying degrees of understanding.
While her father is the first one she opens up to, he immediately tries to connect with his daughter by watching The L Word together and inappropriately talking about the hotness of some of the show’s characters. The inherent humor of this is both funny and uncomfortably true to life. As anyone who ever watched a movie or TV series with his or her parents knows, the shared experience of viewing sex scenes can be an awkward thing.
The reaction of Andie’s mother to her coming-out is somewhat reverse, which Andie calls out later during a group session with the helpful therapist. Likewise, her sister’s question of how Andie “knows that she’s gay” is ignorant, but not atypical for a teenage girl who has a hard time seeing beyond her own horizon.
The film takes its time to introduce its characters, all captured through amazing performances by the entire cast. The dramatic situations and the changing family-dynamics feel authentic—an accurate representation of how these experiences might occur in real life. Achieving a lot of its subdued comedic sensibilities through long takes and slow build-ups in various scenes, the filmmakers have managed to craft a convincingly executed portrait of growing up, regardless of sexual orientation.
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Growing up gay in the south, a high school girl seeks the help of a therapist to come out to her family in this hilarious and touching coming-of-gay story
Drew Van Steenbergen’s Alone With People tells the story of Andie, a high-school girl growing up gay in Georgia and her quest to come to terms with who she is. With the help of an open-minded therapist and their ensuing conversations, which range from funny to revealingly honest, Andie finds the strength to come out to the members of her family, one by one, to varying degrees of understanding.
While her father is the first one she opens up to, he immediately tries to connect with his daughter by watching The L Word together and inappropriately talking about the hotness of some of the show’s characters. The inherent humor of this is both funny and uncomfortably true to life. As anyone who ever watched a movie or TV series with his or her parents knows, the shared experience of viewing sex scenes can be an awkward thing.
The reaction of Andie’s mother to her coming-out is somewhat reverse, which Andie calls out later during a group session with the helpful therapist. Likewise, her sister’s question of how Andie “knows that she’s gay” is ignorant, but not atypical for a teenage girl who has a hard time seeing beyond her own horizon.
The film takes its time to introduce its characters, all captured through amazing performances by the entire cast. The dramatic situations and the changing family-dynamics feel authentic—an accurate representation of how these experiences might occur in real life. Achieving a lot of its subdued comedic sensibilities through long takes and slow build-ups in various scenes, the filmmakers have managed to craft a convincingly executed portrait of growing up, regardless of sexual orientation.
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Growing up gay in the south, a high school girl seeks the help of a therapist to come out to her family in this hilarious and touching coming-of-gay story
Drew Van Steenbergen’s Alone With People tells the story of Andie, a high-school girl growing up gay in Georgia and her quest to come to terms with who she is. With the help of an open-minded therapist and their ensuing conversations, which range from funny to revealingly honest, Andie finds the strength to come out to the members of her family, one by one, to varying degrees of understanding.
While her father is the first one she opens up to, he immediately tries to connect with his daughter by watching The L Word together and inappropriately talking about the hotness of some of the show’s characters. The inherent humor of this is both funny and uncomfortably true to life. As anyone who ever watched a movie or TV series with his or her parents knows, the shared experience of viewing sex scenes can be an awkward thing.
The reaction of Andie’s mother to her coming-out is somewhat reverse, which Andie calls out later during a group session with the helpful therapist. Likewise, her sister’s question of how Andie “knows that she’s gay” is ignorant, but not atypical for a teenage girl who has a hard time seeing beyond her own horizon.
The film takes its time to introduce its characters, all captured through amazing performances by the entire cast. The dramatic situations and the changing family-dynamics feel authentic—an accurate representation of how these experiences might occur in real life. Achieving a lot of its subdued comedic sensibilities through long takes and slow build-ups in various scenes, the filmmakers have managed to craft a convincingly executed portrait of growing up, regardless of sexual orientation.
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