Has anyone seen this film?

It opened Friday at selected theatres across the US.  The website for the film (produced and directed by Dan Karslake) is here.  The film has already won a number of awards on the festival circuit, including the Audience Award for Best Documentary at this year's Seattle International Film Festival.  The film was a nominee for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. 

According to ENS, the film sets out to offer healing, clarity, and understanding to anyone wrestling with scripture and sexual identity.

Gene Robinson and his parents are among those interviewed in the film.  Karslake credits +Robinson as "the single most significant person who made the film happen."

Through the experiences of five "very normal, very Christian, very American families," the film helps viewers discover how people of faith handle, or sometimes tragically fail to handle, having a gay child.  The film asks questions including: Can the love between two people ever be an abomination? Is the chasm separating gays and lesbians and Christianity too wide to cross? Is the Bible an excuse to hate?

Other religious leaders interviewed in the film include Archbishop Desmond Tutu; the Rev. Dr. Mel White, president and co-founder of Soulforce; the Rev. Dr. Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard Divinity School; and the Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, director of the Department of Religion at Chautauqua Institution. 

Gomes observes that "[t]here are about six or seven verses in all of Scripture that speak to even remotely what we might call homosexual activity or homosexual conduct."  Gomes says "[literalists] are failing to read the Bible within the context of its authors and of its original culture."

If you've seen the film, what did you think?  I've not seen it but I'd like to, and it's playing in my city ...  so I really have no excuse for not seeing it :-)

Cool, Shel.  I'll pester you for a review :-)

Actually, it's playing at a theatre not far from me ... I walked by it tonight (with a bag full of perishable groceries, wouldn't you know, so I couldn't just pop in and see it).  I don't know how long it will be in town, so I think I should see it before Friday. 

I'll post a review after I see it.