Film Review: Prodigal Sons
Compelling documentary featuring a remarkably appealing transsexual high-school star quarterback and her adopted, brain-damaged brother who learns he's the grandson of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth.
Feb 26, 2010
-By Doris Toumarkine
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Yes, there's all the noise—thanks to many festival awards and media attention—about this documentary and its subject who learns he's the grandson of Hollywood royalty. But filmmaker Kimberly Reed—evolving from high-school jock to lovely, appealing female—also emerges a star.
Prodigal Sons is a unique journey into deepest Montana and deep family secrets as Reed (née McKerrow) leads this adventure/investigation into the story of her sibling—adopted brother Marc McKerrow especially and, more as a pro-forma gesture, biological younger brother Todd McKerrow (an architect living in San Diego).