The Everlasting Secret Family

1988 Drama

"Everlasting Secret Family" is the name of a sub-rosa homosexual brotherhood in this riveting Australian film. Two of the ESF members are a middle-aged politician (Arthur Dignam) and a boarding-school student (Mark Lee). The younger man begins chafing at the "plaything" status imposed upon him by the older members of ESF. His resentment culminates in a battle of wills between himself and the senator's politically expedient "straight" wife (Heather Mitchell). Dispensing with subtlety, Everlasting Secret Family suggests that, like the so-called mainstream political scene, the gay lifestyle can become a dangerously manipulative power trip in the wrong hands.

Director: Michael Thornhill

Starring: Mark Lee, Arthur Dignam, Dominic Barry, Tony Bremmer, Alexander Broun

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Awards

  • Best Actor in a Lead Role

    Australian Film Institute (1988)