The Sons of Tennessee Williams
First Run Features | Release Date: October 7, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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2
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75
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayOct 5, 2011
The significance of that group anecdote - from the message of unity to the way Mardi Gras gave some gay New Orleanians a way to explain their lives to their parents - can't be overstated, either for its impact on human rights or its power to move. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeOct 9, 2011
Genial documentary combines extravagance of Mardi Gras drag with an underexposed story of early gay-rights achievements. Read full review
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New York PostLou LumenickOct 7, 2011
The Sons of Tennessee Williams, which offers touching interviews with many older gay men, somewhat awkwardly connects this history with the efforts of a gay Mardi Gras crew to keep going in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Read full review
60
The New York TimesPaul BrunickOct 6, 2011
As the film cuts back and forth between the present day and a historical survey of gay culture, its tone wavers between dutifully somber and irrepressibly funny. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis HarveyOct 4, 2011
Tim Wolff's documentary is a diverting mix of colorful interviewees and footage from one such krewe's 40th anniversary ball, but it doesn't probe very deep. Read full review
30
Village VoiceErnest HardyOct 4, 2011
A tedious exercise in filling in historical blanks through exhausted tropes. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneOct 6, 2011
This time-tested project of tracing gayness back to when its shame was so explicitly enforced feels not only passé, and naïve, but mostly unproductive in a post-Judith Butler world in which drag queens are on TV teaching biological women how to better perform womanhood. Read full review
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