Nov 25, 2020 - In 1973, teenaged Beth Bledsoe (Sophia Lillis) leaves her rural Southern hometown to study at New York University where her beloved Uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) is a revered literature ...

Uncle Frank is one of the best films of the years and now available on Amazon Prime Video. The movie follows teenaged Beth (Sophia Lillis) as she leaves her rural Southern hometown to study at New ...

Uncle Frank (2020) is a comedy-drama directed by Alan Ball. The storyline shows a gay professor living with his teenage niece who goes on a trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina to attend ...

It feels sort of, well, wrong to find yourself a little underwhelmed by “Uncle Frank.” After all, the film – debuting this week on Amazon’s Prime Video – is written and directed by Alan Ball, who ...

Writer-director-producer Alan Ball has never been one to shy away from trying to make people laugh or make them grimace or shudder or think or get caught up in emotional chaos. He also has great ...

Now on Amazon Prime, Uncle Frank is the new film by Alan Ball, Oscar-winning writer of American Beauty and Emmy-winning creator of Six Feet Under and True Blood. It may be a more personal story from ...

WILMINGTON – As Peter Macdissi drove through rural Pender County in May 2019, not even the stuffy early summer humidity could ruin the view. Behind the wheel of a vintage Chrysler convertible on a ...

Alan Ball’s “Uncle Frank” is a wonderfully warm film about coming out and growing up. It’s also an only-on-the-surface-shallow melodrama about coming to terms with your Southern family and yourself.