Out in the Silence

Year: 2009

Country: USA

Tagline: Out in the Silence will challenge you to rethink your values and help close the gaps that divide our communities.  »

Plot: When a popular 16-year-old jock is brutally attacked for coming out at his small town high school, his mother reaches out for help to the only person she feels she can trust, an openly gay man who lives 300 miles away native son and filmmaker Joe Wilson, whose same-sex wedding announcement ignited a firestorm of controversy in the local paper. Returning home with camera in hand, Wilson documents the harrowing but ultimately successful battle waged by the teen and his mom against recalcitrant school authorities, the efforts of a lesbian couple to restore an historic theater in the face of vitriolic anti-gay attacks, and his own unexpected friendship with an Evangelical preacher. As walls are torn down and bridges built, OUT IN THE SILENCE offers a fascinating and moving commentary on America's culture war.The film focuses on the widely varying, emotional reactions of the residents in town  including the teen and his mother, the head of the local chapter of the American Family Association, and an evangelical pastor and his wife.

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