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Writer-director Alan Ball (screenwriter of American Beauty) helms this comedy-drama about the Bledsoe family of Creekville, South Carolina. Set mostly in the early 1970s, it s the story of Frank (Paul Bettany), who s secretly gay, and his niece, Beth (Sophia Lillis), who feels most akin to Frank a quiet, thoughtful man amid Southern rednecks. Frank escaped small-town Southern life and teaches literature at an NYC college, where Beth now attends as a freshman. Beth s father, Mike (Steve Zahn), is a classic Southerner, but the patriarch of the family Frank and Mike s father, Daddy Mac (Stephen Root) is a cruel, closed-minded bigot. When Daddy Mac dies of a sudden heart attack, Frank agrees to drive home with Beth to attend the funeral. Unbeknownst to them, Frank s boyfriend of 10 years, Walid Wally Nadeem (Peter Macdissi), rents a car and follows them, hoping to lend emotional support to Frank. Mixing flashbacks to Frank s younger years (young Fr