Taking Hugh for Granted

Our Sons

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Come fly the flag with us this 2021 Pride month as we look back on Our Sons (TV Movie, 1991), one of a select and special few Hugh Grant projects in which he plays and LGBTQ+ character. Your hosts, Oscar and Diggory, discuss the movie's (many) mishaps, pitfalls and mistakes but also how, despite all that, it's rather inspirational...

Donald Barnes (Zeljko Ivanek) is dying of A.I.D.S. His lover, James (Hugh Grant), pleads his mother, Audrey (Dame Julie Andrews), to go to Fayetteville, Arkansas to convince Donald's mother, Luanne (Ann-Margret), to end her estrangement from Donald and see him one last time...

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For those of you that want to skip disclaimers, opening theme tunes, salutations, synopses and go straight to the film analysis, head to 04:12