Recently relocated from San Francisco to conservative suburbia by her lesbian mothers, Tru struggles like all teens to fit in and find love, but her quest is complicated by sexual politics, closed minds, and closeted friends as she seeks to establish her school's first Gay-Straight Alliance.
Acting
Najarra Townsend commits harder than this script deserves.
Production
The budget screams 'filmed over one weekend in someone's actual house.'
Writing
Dialogue so on-the-nose it circles back to charming.
Director
Stewart Wade
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This premiered right after Prop 8 passed in California, making its 'suburbs are more tolerant' premise accidentally tragic.
Jake Abel went on to play in The Host and Supernatural; Najarra Townsend later starred in Contracted, a body horror film about a very different kind of queer trauma.
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