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  • Summary: Returning home to a small town in Montana for her high school reunion, filmmaker Kimberly Reed hopes for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother, Marc. But along the way she uncovers stunning revelations, including his blood relationship with Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, intense sibling rivalries and unforeseeable twists of plot and gender that forces them to face challenges no one could imagine. (First Run Features) Expand
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  1. Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    100
    Harrowing and unforgettable film.
  2. A tale of two siblings -- one basking in memories, the other fleeing them -- Prodigal Sons grapples with identity through the prism of sibling rivalry. In the end its conclusions have little to do with gender and everything to do with acceptance.
  3. Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    80
    Reed insists on pursuing difficult questions, and this is a film not easily forgotten.
  4. As with most fam-cam documentaries, dysfunction pushes the story along, tipping over into exploitation.

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