Filmmaker Moby Longinotto’s fascinating, thoroughly candid documentary invites audiences to pull up a chair at the never-dull family table in a Mississippi trailer-park home. Everything is on the menu: dashed dreams, seething resentments, sexual awakenings, and dollops of unconditional love. Overseeing all the tumult is unflappable, seventy-three-year-old transgender matriarch Jheri Jones, whose dedicated ministrations keep her family going.
Part of the 59th San Francisco International Film Festival at the BAMPFA!
Filmmaker Moby Longinotto’s fascinating, thoroughly candid documentary invites audiences to pull up a chair at the never-dull family table in a Mississippi trailer-park home. Everything is on the menu: dashed dreams, seething resentments, sexual awakenings, and dollops of unconditional love. Overseeing all the tumult is unflappable, seventy-three-year-old transgender matriarch Jheri Jones, whose dedicated ministrations keep her family going.
Part of the 59th San Francisco International Film Festival at the BAMPFA!
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