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The Truth About Jane

Year: 2000
Classification: Drama
Country: USA
Language: English

Directed:
- Lee Rose

Actors/Actresses:
- Ellen Muth
- Stockard Channing

A Must Buy Movie!

This movie is extraordinary wonderful. If you like dramas this is a perfect movie. Telling everyone i know to go out and BUY this movie. Its really worth it. A great story! Inspired by actual events! This movie discribes more then just one persons life. This type of event happens to hundreds of young teenagers who dont know how to confess there Sexuality to there parents. If you are having this problems. This movie may just help. Make them watch it. It may just help them understand what kinds of things your going though. It was a definant help for me! ...

A Great Tool for Gay Teens ; Their Parents

This film deals with a young girl's realization that she is gay. BR>I strongly feel it is a film that everybody should watch, especially parents of gay children and gay and straight teenagers. Important issues are dealt with in a tasteful, sensitive manner. It is educational and eye-opening without being too preachy or threatening to straight audiences.BR>We see the main character, Jane, deal with her first lesbian relationship and the ensuing heartbreak once the relationship ends. We see how Jane learns to deal with the homophobia from her classmates and friends. Most importantly, we see how Jane's family reacts and deals with her homosexuality.BR>Where I feel the realism breaks down a bit is that fact that Jane has two gay role models to help her through difficulties: her mother's gay friend (played by RuPaul), and a sympathetic English teacher who confronts Jane's parents at one point. I don't think most gay teens are so fortunate as Jane. Still, this movie may help to serve as a tool for gay teens to come out to their parents. This movie will also help those parents as well, since they'll see that much of what they're feeling are portrayed by Jane's two parents. This film is recommended by PFLAG and made with their cooperation.

Not a classic, but good anyway

I think this is a good first coming-out story. Who cares if it's a bit 'after school special'. I still think it's a good take on the subject. I think it's great tool for parents and teens to adress the issue of coming out. Because as tollerant as the world seems, many families aren't open and accepting of the reality of thier child/sister/brother/cousin/nephew/neice/whatever being gay. No, it's not a classic film or a Classic in Lesbian entertainment. It's not even the best Lesbian love story ever, though it does do a fair treament to the emotional termoil of first love, first 'time', and first heartbreak. But it mixes all this within the struggle of a family and fairly treats the issue of coming out with the family. The first female relationship Jane has is little more than a subplot and I thought that made this film different in a good way. Usually it's the family that's reduced to a background plot while one rehashes the same ol plots seen in Hetero and Homosexual movies based on the 'romance' element.
Great coming out story, decent movie, gets my recomendation for anyone looking for films dealing with this subject.

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