Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2008

A mulligan, in life and on the golf course, is a second take, a do-over, a penaltyfree chance to start again. If only second chances were as easy in life as they are in golf. In MULLIGANS, college is out for the summer, and artist Chase (Charlie David from Dante’s Cove) is visiting his best friend Tyler’s family. The vacation begins typically, with keg parties and easy jobs at the golf course, but as the season progresses, Tyler and Chase drift apart. Chase catches the attention of Tyler’s hunky dad, Nathan, a dutiful if distant husband and father with secrets. Expectations collide with reality and assumptions miss by a mile in this finely detailed film. Tyler’s impressionable younger sister Birdy injects subtle humor and wisdom, while Tyler’s mother Stacy (Thea Gill from Queer as Folk) somehow maintains a stable perspective as her family pivots from one revelation to another. Click Here to View Trailer Guests in attendance.

Lucie’s biological clock is ticking. She tells her partner Marion that she wants a child, but has her own ideas of how to go about it: she doesn’t want to adopt and she’s not interested in shopping at a sperm bank. Lucie wants to know the biological father, but insists that he relinquish all rights to the child. Since that doesn’t seem to be too much to ask, Marion agrees, and the women go on a progressively more outrageous quest to find a donor, until an old friend agrees to step up to the plate. All seems well until the growing reality of the pregnancy and birth of their child raises unanticipated and uncomfortable questions: as the non-biological parent, what role does Marion have? And what if the biological father decides he wants to be more involved? THE NEW WORLD of modern parenting threatens Marion and Lucie’s relationship just as it should be growing stronger. ASL Interpreting before the film.