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Drama

The Mattachine Family

- Celebrate your chosen family.

While Thomas and Oscar are very much in love, after their first foster child returns to his birth mother, they find that they have different ideas about what making a family actually means.

Release Date : 2025-03-27

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Huckleberry Films

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Nico Tortorella

Character Name : Thomas Reid

Original Name : Nico Tortorella

Gender : Male

Juan Pablo Di Pace

Character Name : Oscar Reyes

Original Name : Juan Pablo Di Pace

Gender : Male

Emily Hampshire

Character Name : Leah

Original Name : Emily Hampshire

Gender : Female

Heather Matarazzo

Character Name : Annie

Original Name : Heather Matarazzo

Gender : Female

Carl Clemons-Hopkins

Character Name : Ted

Original Name : Carl Clemons-Hopkins

Gender : Male

Colleen Foy

Character Name : Sarah

Original Name : Colleen Foy

Gender : Female

Jake Choi

Character Name : Jamie

Original Name : Jake Choi

Gender : Male

Annie Funke

Character Name : Laura

Original Name : Annie Funke

Gender : Female

Cloie Wyatt Taylor

Character Name : Sonia

Original Name : Cloie Wyatt Taylor

Gender : Male

Jack Perry

Character Name : Paul

Original Name : Jack Perry

Gender : Male

Garrett Clayton

Character Name : Jake

Original Name : Garrett Clayton

Gender : Male

Khalilah Joi

Character Name : Vera

Original Name : Khalilah Joi

Gender : Female

Anny Rosario

Character Name : Rachel

Original Name : Anny Rosario

Gender : Female

Patrick Starrr

Character Name : Self

Original Name : Patrick Starrr

Gender : Male

Roze JC Zepeda

Character Name : Cam

Original Name : Roze JC Zepeda

Gender : Male

Olabisi Kovabel

Character Name : Riley

Original Name : Olabisi Kovabel

Gender : Male

Will von Vogt

Character Name : Martin

Original Name : Will von Vogt

Gender : Male

Anthony Lee Medina

Character Name : Victor

Original Name : Anthony Lee Medina

Gender : Male

Remington Baig

Character Name : Huck

Original Name : Remington Baig

Gender : Male

Matthew Postlethwaite

Character Name : Sam

Original Name : Matthew Postlethwaite

Gender : Male

Matthew Ocampo

Character Name : Arthur

Original Name : Matthew Ocampo

Gender : Male

Mateo Montez

Character Name : Arthur's Father

Original Name : Mateo Montez

Gender : Male

Parker Looney

Character Name : Evie

Original Name : Parker Looney

Gender : Male

Jude Friedman

Character Name : Young Thomas

Original Name : Jude Friedman

Gender : Male

Ian Nunney

Character Name : Young Oscar

Original Name : Ian Nunney

Gender : Male

Jeff Witzke

Character Name : Gregory

Original Name : Jeff Witzke

Gender : Male

Alice Prime

Character Name : Diana

Original Name : Alice Prime

Gender : Male

Laura Fernanda Alejandra

Character Name : Smitty

Original Name : Laura Fernanda Alejandra

Gender : Male

Yong Kim

Character Name : Jamie's Father

Original Name : Yong Kim

Gender : Male

Rebekka Lien

Character Name : Jamie's Mother

Original Name : Rebekka Lien

Gender : Male

Alice Bang

Character Name : Jamie's Sister

Original Name : Alice Bang

Gender : Male

Caitlin Spears

Character Name : Caroline

Original Name : Caitlin Spears

Gender : Male

Levi Foster

Character Name : Adult Pirate

Original Name : Levi Foster

Gender : Male

Florence Vallentine

Character Name : Poppy

Original Name : Florence Vallentine

Gender : Male

Clinton Haddix

Character Name : Alfred

Original Name : Clinton Haddix

Gender : Male

Reviews

B

Brent Marchant

@Brent_Marchant

2024-07-05

When a film feels it has to beat its message to death to get it across, it loses much of its effectiveness, and that’s very much the case with director Andy Vallentine’s debut narrative feature. The picture tells the story of an upscale Los Angeles gay male couple, Thomas (Nico Tortorella) and Oscar (Juan Pablo Di Pace), who become foster parents to a six-year-old boy (Matthew Jacob Ocampo) whose drug-addicted mother (Colleen Foy) is incarcerated. But, when mom is released from prison, she wins back custody of the child to raise as her own, a development that tears Thomas apart. His anguish is exacerbated by many of his LGBTQ friends becoming parents and Oscar’s lack of interest in fostering another youngster, causing a serious rift in their relationship. To its credit, the premise behind this comedy-drama is admittedly refreshing for a work of gay cinema, but its execution misses the mark due to its unoriginal, undercooked, redundant screenplay. For instance, some of the humor is decidedly catchy, but much of the basic dialogue sounds like it could have been pulled from episodes of Queer as Folk. And then there are the trite characters and scene settings, many of which resemble entries from the Big Book of Gay Stereotypes, a lazy approach to telling this picture’s story. What’s most tiresome, though, are Thomas’s endless laments about losing custody of his foster child and his indecisiveness about how to resolve his despair, script elements that become irritatingly circular and repetitive. Even the title is somewhat problematic in that it could easily be interpreted in several ways, several of which could be taken as misleading (which I’m certain is not what was intended). In short, despite this production’s attempts at doing something inventive and different, “The Mattachine Project” is nevertheless one of those projects that clearly should have gone through a few more rounds of revisions and rewrites before being committed to celluloid.