The award-winning film Inlaws and Outlaws will be screened at Magnolia United Church of Christ at 3555 West McGraw St. on Sunday (1/16) at 3p.m. The film is free and the public is invited to attend.
Drew Emery, the Seattle based director and producer, will lead a post-film discussion. A reception for all movie goers will follow.
Here is what the movie is about: This documentary film weaves together the true stories of couples and singles? both gay and straight ? into a collective narrative that is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking. At the top of the film, you meet real people one on one. You don?t know who?s gay or straight or who?s with whom. As their stories unfold and stereotypes fall by the wayside, you won?t care because you?ll be rooting for everybody. With candor, good humor, great music and real heart, Inlaws & Outlaws gets past all the rhetoric to embrace what we have in common: We love. Love is neither gay nor straight – it’s human.
Emery made Inlaws & Outlaws as a way of bridging what he calls the ?false divide? between gay and straight people around the contentious topic of love and marriage. ?We?ve shown this film with great success in red states and blue states, urban centers and rural communities,? says Emery. ?It?s played in churches in Oklahoma, small college towns and to sell-out houses from Cleveland to Seattle ? and everywhere we go, we find audiences embrace the idea that love is absolutely the thing that connects us as human beings ? and not at all the thing that divides us.?
Nothing against a movie like this being shown at an “art house” theatre or the like. But at a church in a family based neighborhood. Somehow that just feels a little off.
@Snarkbark – Are you serious or just acting stupid? Read the synopsis.
This is a big, beautiful, incredibly touching film made by a local man. It’s a movie about love – gently and warmly weaving interviews and stories and music and people. I promise that you will fall in love with at least one person (on screen) – just because when people are vulnerable and talk about what’s really important, and when you share some of their life in a film like this, your heart opens too.
I’ve seen this film twice, and as someone who lives in Magnolia with my life partner (17 years strong), I’m grateful that I have the opportunity to see it again. I would also add that it is an absolutely appropriate film to view in a church setting- it’s a film about love, marriage, and family. Church and the “family based neighborhood” of Magnolia are both perfectly suited for dialogue about family- all families.
I’ve seen this film twice, and as someone who lives in Magnolia with my life partner (17 years strong), I’m grateful that I have the opportunity to see it again. I would also add that it is an absolutely appropriate film to view in a church setting- it’s a film about love, marriage, and family. Church and the “family based neighborhood” of Magnolia are both perfectly suited for dialogue about family- all families.
I’ve seen this film twice, and as someone who lives in Magnolia with my life partner (17 years strong), I’m grateful that I have the opportunity to see it again. I would also add that it is an absolutely appropriate film to view in a church setting- it’s a film about love, marriage, and family. Church and the “family based neighborhood” of Magnolia are both perfectly suited for dialogue about family- all families.