What You Should Know About Amazon Studios’ Uncle Frank

The film Uncle Frank is a 2020 American comedy film about a closeted gay man who travels to the South to attend his father’s funeral. It has all the feels of a typical coming-of-age story (well, coming of age when you’re much, much older), including the day of reckoning and dealing with your past part of it.

Alan Ball wrote the screenplay and directed the film while Bill Block, Michael Costigan, Jay Van Hoy, Stephanie Meurer, Peter Macdissi and Alan Ball serve as producers. Miramax, Your Face Goes Here Entertainment, Byblos Entertainment, Cota Films, and Parts & Labor served as the production companies. The movie will be distributed by Amazon Studios.

What is the movie all about? When is it coming out? Is it worth watching? Well, you gotta keep on reading to find more out!

Uncle Frank: Plot and Cast

It is the early 1970s and Frank Bledsoe is a closeted gay man, who teaches literature at New York University and never quite got over his self hatred. His niece Beth Bledsoe, sees that he stands out within their conservative family and really admires her sophisticated uncle.

She is a freshman at New York University and feels excited to be in a big city after being sheltered her whole life. Like her uncle, she, too, feels like a black sheep within their conservative and stoutly Christian family. However, she doesn’t know about her uncle’s sexuality. Or that he has been dating his roommate Wally for the past ten years.

Frank and Beth go back for Frank’s narrow-minded father’s funeral and he knows that some of his secrets may have to come out eventually. Frank is also a recovering alcoholic, so that does add more issues into the mix.

Paul Bettany plays Frank Bledsoe while Sophia Lilis plays Beth Bledsoe. Peter Macdissi plays Walid ‘Wally’ Naseem.

Uncle Frank: Release Date and Trailer

The film is scheduled to be released on November 25, 2020. Watch the trailer below: