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Based On Novel Or Book | Coming Out
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | 1986 | Marlo
Outstanding Directing in a Limited Series or a Special | 1985 | Gilbert
Laura Z. Hobson's novel chronicled thirteen years in the Lynn family's life, whereas the film covers roughly one year. The family's surname was changed to Lynd for the film.
The character of Tess (Marlo Thomas), a city-dwelling book editor in the novel, was transformed into a suburban stay-at-home mother in the film - ironic given Thomas' penchant for spotlighting feminism in her work.
The novel on which the film is based was set in New York City, which appears incidental until author Laura Z. Hobson gears the story's climax to erupt during the police riots in the Stonewall Inn, the famous Greenwich Village bar that is cited as the birthplace of the gay rights movement. The film version takes place in Seattle in the year 1985, which robs the story of one of its most powerful arcs, the fact that Jeff's coming of age parallels the birth of the gay revolution.
Laura Z. Hobson admitted that her novel closely paralleled her own process in accepting her son Christopher's realization that he was gay.
Following her run on TV's "That Girl," Marlo Thomas had famously taken seven years off to study acting seriously, and positive critical response to her performance in "Consenting Adult" (1985) was confirmation that she had matured. Her efforts truly paid off the following year when she won an Emmy for her unexpectedly harrowing performance in "Nobody's Child" (1986).
"Jeff Lynd: Mom. I'm a homosexual."
"[explaining to his mom how he knows he's homosexual...] Jeff Lynd: Other guys. Like, My friends... Pete... Ya know they *talk* about their girls and what they feel, what they dream, and what they do. Jeff Lynd: I think of girls. A girl. And I try to feel what they feel. Jeff Lynd: Mom, I've held a girl in my arms. And I've kissed her. And I've touched her. And she's touched me. But none of it happened. It's like I'm behind this thick glass wall, not a part of anything with no feelings. Jeff Lynd: But, There's this guy on the swim team. I'm nothing special to him but a teammate, an acquaintance. But when I see him, or when I'm close to him, I feel, *alive*. The wall is gone. Jeff Lynd: A few times, he's touched me. Hugged me. He doesn't give it any thought. But I can't think of anything else. I dream about him. I don't want to, but I do. Ya know, I feel the same things for him that I'm supposed to feel for girls. I know what it is to love. To be loved. To make love. Then I wake up. And I feel miserable and ashamed."
