Product Description

Sweet, smart, and funny, Mulligans is more than a poignant family drama; more than a coming out movie.

Straight college jock Tyler brings his best friend Chase to his family s lakeside home for summer vacation. The Davidson family welcomes Chase but as the summer blossoms, unexpected attractions flare. Tyler s Mom Stacey tries to keep it all together while Tyler s Dad Nathan valiantly struggles with his long suppressed sexuality.

Exceptionally well-written and packed with great performances from a strong cast that includes Charlie David (Dante s Cove, A Four Letter Word), Thea Gill (Queer as Folk), Dan Payne (Watchmen), Derek James and newcomer Grace Vukovic.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4756 in DVD
• Brand: WOLFE VIDEO
• Released on: 2009-04-21
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Features

• Sweet, smart, and funny, Mulligans is more than a poignant family drama; more than a coming out movie. Straight college jock Tyler brings his best friend Chase to his family s lakeside home for summer vacation. The Davidson family welcomes Chase but as the summer blossoms, unexpected attractions flare. Tyler s Mom Stacey tries to keep it all together while Tyler s Dad Nathan valiantly struggles

Amazon.com
This well-meaning Canadian indie opens with the explanation that a "mulligan" in golf parlance means "a second chance to perform a certain move or action." Golf enthusiast Nathan Davidson (Watchmen's Dan Payne) seems to have it all--good looks, a beautiful wife, a big house by the beach--until a chance encounter forces him to face the truth (oddly, the screenplay fails to identify the source of his financial largesse). When Nathan's college-aged son, Tyler (Derek Baynham), arrives for a summer stay with his best friend, Chase (writer/producer Charlie David), an aspiring artist, Nathan bonds more easily with the friend than the son. From the start, it's clear that Chase has no interest in girls, but the self-obsessed Tyler fails to notice. While he cavorts with his girlfriend, stay-at-home mom Stacy (Thea Gill, Queer as Folk) looks after his younger sister, and Chase and Nathan enter into a secret affair. Naturally, it won't stay secret forever. Mulligans tackles a sensitive subject in a tasteful, if unadventurous manner, i.e. the actors have a certain chiseled soap-star look and convey inner turmoil by staring into space as piano music plays in the background. For those who find the omni-sexual films of, say, Todd Haynes unsettling (especially Far from Heaven), such unthreatening moves may help the medicine go down easier, but there's no rule that a coming-out film can't take a few chances. Even so, certain moments will surely hit home with anyone who's ever tumbled into a family secret or two. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Review
Winner Audience Award for Best Film: Pittsburgh International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

Winner Audience Award for Best Film: Fort Worth Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival

Winner Jury Award for Best Film: Fort Worth Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival

Four Stars! (out of 5) MetroWeekly

Delightful, thought-provoking and truthful look at coming out, being who you are and ultimately, acceptance. Gay Vancouver Online

Strong performances. Cinequeer

MULLIGANS is a fresh and multi-layered take on the coming out genre. Austin Gay & Lesbian Film Fest --Wolfe

About the Actor
Thea Gill - plays Stacey Davidson
Thea Gill is best known for her role as Lindsay Peterson on Showtime's popular and groundbreaking television series, Queer as Folk for which she received a 2002 ACTRA Award nomination for Best Actress . As a result of her work on this show, she was also honored with the 2003 National Leadership Award from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and this year with the 2006 Spotlight Award from PFLAG DC.

Other television appearances include lead and support roles in; Homecoming, Truth,
Reunion, Andromeda, Tornado Warning, Sightings: Heartland Ghost, Trial of a Serial
Killer, and Common Ground.

Thea was awarded the 2002 Golden Sheaf award for Best Actress for her work on Bliss: Nina's Muse and the 2005 Leo Award for her work on The Collector.