“I know that they were thinking about it.” “He was very afraid that my mother’s parents would take us away,” she says. Her father helped in the shop in part so he could be home when his daughters came back from school and no one could accuse him of being a negligent parent, Wynne says. Phipps had a shop in the back of the house and separate bedroom, just like in her screenplay, and the men became friendly with many Cape artists, including Richard Howard. The family was ostracized there, Wynne says she has since realized, so they moved to Route 6A in Dennis in 1976.
MY FAMILY SECRET MOVIE
Gibbs in the movie - moved in with the family in the mid-1970s when they lived in New Jersey. Phipps - her widowed father’s lover, named Mr. Wynne says her mother died when she was 11, and Mr.
And who could tell it better than someone who grew up like that?” The real-life story
… That's what drew me to the project from the very beginning - that this was a fresh new attitude towards an issue that we've never seen before. “There’s never been a story told by the children of gay parents. “Wild About Harry” has “always been like the outsider film because there's never been a family gay film like this,” Egan says in a joint phone interview with Wynne. “The story is timeless, it's entertaining, it's still relevant,” Egan says.įirst 'Movies on Main' fest: Movies back in downtown Hyannis for two-day event Supreme Court decision in June to affirm that the Catholic Church could refuse LGBTQ couples as adoptive parents. What’s not different? That the story about two teen girls in 1973 realizing their widowed father is gay, and what might happen if word gets out, still resonates, they say - especially considering the U.S.