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Uncle Frank Is Alan Ball’s Most Personal Gay-Themed Project Yet
Uncle Frank.“It’s about the challenges of being an authentic person in an increasingly inauthentic world,” the out writer and director tells The Advocate. Picked up by Amazon Studios, the film stars Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, Judy Greer, Steve Zahn, Lois Smith, Margo Martindale, and Stephen Root.Lillis’s Beth, a pensive, well-read young woman stifled by her small South Carolina town and conservative family, narrates the story.