NaFF09 – Prodigal Sons
Kimberly Reed
Returning home to a Helena, Montana for her 20-year high school reunion, debut filmmaker Kimberly Reed hopes to rebuild her relationship with her adopted brother – and to capture the experience on camera. Instead of a simple tale of estrangement and reconciliation, Prodigal Sons offers deep questions of identity, gender identity, genetic identity, and the how traumatic brain injury can completely alter a loved one. Reed’s access and her family’s relative ease around the camera create an intimate portrait of a family who seems so simultaneously ordinary ? and yet utterly extraordinary. Let’s just say that if Kimberly Reed had attempted to fictionalize her family’s story and sell it as a screenplay, she would have been laughed out of every studio. Instead, we’re given the gift of this raw, emotional, personal ? and ultimately beautiful – examination of one family’s attempts to reconcile past with present.
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