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In Gun Hill Road, director Rashaad Ernesto Green has written a loving, complex portrait of a Bronx family in struggle. The patriarch, Enrique (Esai Morales), has been in prison for three years. In that time, his wife (played by Judi Reyes of Scrubs fame) has had an affair. But Enrique feels most betrayed by the changes in his son Michael, who’s in the middle of a physical transition to becoming a teen girl.
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In Gun Hill Road, director Rashaad Ernesto Green has written a loving, complex portrait of a Bronx family in struggle. The patriarch, Enrique (Esai Morales), has been in prison for three years. In that time, his wife (played by Judi Reyes of Scrubs fame) has had an affair. But Enrique feels most betrayed by the changes in his son Michael, who’s in the middle of a physical transition to becoming a teen girl.
Green said he was inspired by a member of his family who went through something similar as the father in the film. “I watched this family deteriorate…as an artist, I wanted to make a piece of art that didn’t necessarily give them all the answers, but at least pointed them in the way of love and acceptance,” he said.
Green said he wanted the script to reflect a Latino family that’s driven by their love for one other. It’s a relief, watching the movie, to see a man of color characte...
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