Prodigal Sons

This is a must see film!  If you missed it at SIFF 2009, make time to see it this weekend as it is suppose to be fab!  Ms T

Prodigal Sons
86 minutes

Early on in this very personal film, the audience learns that the director, Kimberly Reed, was once known as Paul, a star quarterback in high school before her sex-change operation. Reed’s gender reassignment, however, turns out to be a mere side note—and hardly the most surprising one—in this exploration of her family’s past.

While visiting her hometown of Helena, Montana, to attend a high-school reunion, she reconnects with her adopted brother, Marc, whom she hasn’t seen in more than a decade. Growing up, Marc lived in the shadow of his overachieving then-brother Paul (now Kimberly). Since suffering a traumatic brain injury at age 21, Marc is prone to mercurial mood swings and violent behavior. But Marc takes center stage after it is revealed that he is the biological grandson of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth.

The jaw-dropping revelations continue as Kimberly and Marc travel to Croatia to visit Welles’ longtime partner Oja Kodar to learn more about Marc’s mysterious origins. The raw emotions and sibling resentments uncovered in Prodigal Sons make it one of the strangest first-person documentaries in recent years and one that is sure to ignite many “nature versus nurture” arguments among viewers.

Played at SIFF 2009!

Presented in association with Three Dollar Bill Cinema

March 5, 2010 7:30 PM
March 6, 2010 2:00 PM
March 6, 2010 7:30 PM
March 7, 2010 2:00 PM
March 7, 2010 7:30 PM
March 10, 2010 7:30 PM
March 11, 2010 7:30 PM

Tickets

SIFF Cinema is located at 321 Mercer Street at 3rd Avenue, McCaw Hall, in the heart of Seattle Center’s Theatre district.
SIFF Cinema is located in the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall on the lower level of Marion Oliver McCaw Hall at Seattle Center. The main entrance is directly below the skybridge from the Mercer garage at the Corner of 3rd Avenue North and Mercer Street. In addition to the Mercer garage, parking is available on the street (metered and zoned) or in adjacent pay parking lots and garages.