Uncle Frank, 2020. Written and Directed by Alan Ball. Starring Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, Steve Zahn, Judy Greer, Margo Martindale, Stephen Root, and Lois Smith. SYNOPSIS: Accompanied by his teenage niece, a gay literature professor reluctantly returns home to attend his father’s funeral. For lack of a better phrase, I am the “Uncle […]
Exclusive Interview – Sophia Lillis talks Uncle Frank, empowerment, role models, portraying literary characters, finding her calling, and more
Robert Kojder chats with Sophia Lillis… Just in time for Thanksgiving, Uncle Frank puts a spin on the crazy uncle stereotype, where the eponymous relative is basically the only educated, thoughtful, artful, progressive, and empowering one of the backwoods South Carolina bunch. More to the point, Frank (a wise but perpetually troubled Paul Bettany) is the […]
Movie Review – Uncle Frank (2020)
Uncle Frank, 2020. Written and Directed by Alan Ball. Starring Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Steve Zahn, Judy Greer, Stephen Root, Peter Macdissi, Margo Martindale, Caity Brewer, Lois Smith, and Cole Doman. SYNOPSIS: In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family […]
Paul Bettany and Sophia Lillis star in trailer for Uncle Frank
Amazon Prime Video has released a poster and trailer for writer-director Alan Ball’s 70s-set drama Uncle Frank which stars Sophia Lillis as Beth, a young woman who leaves her rural town to study at New York University where her beloved uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) is a literature professor, she soon discovers he is gay and […]
