| Parallel Sons | |
| Director: | John G. Young |
| Producer: | Nancy Larsen James Spione |
| Starring: | Gabriel Mann Laurence Mason |
| Music: | Emile Menasche |
| Cinematography: | Matthew M. Howe |
| Editing: | James Spione John G. Young |
| Distributor: | Greycat Films |
| Runtime: | 93 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Parallel Sons is a 1995 gay-themed drama film, written and directed by John G. Young and starring Gabriel Mann and Laurence Mason. It premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival.
Seth is a youth with artistic leanings, a rural white young man with a fascination with black pop culture, and a dead-end life in an Adirondack village. He's alternatively sensitive and brutal with Kristen, who wants a sexual relationship that he explosively rejects.
Late one night, as he's closing the cafe where he works, a young black man, called Knowledge, attempts to rob him at gun point, but faints from illness. Seth takes the man, who is an escapee from a nearby local youthful offender boot camp. He nurses him in a family cabin and they begin a tentative friendship. When the sheriff learns of Seth's harboring a fugitive, a confrontation looms. Relationships between fathers and their children dominate the subplots