The Mattachine Family | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer
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00:00I had to help other people create families.
00:08I have something to tell you.
00:10How can you say that to me?
00:12I don't want to be a father, I don't!
00:14Does that somehow diminish how I'm feeling right now?
00:16You want to look back on your life and know that you fought when things got hard.
00:20I was gonna be you and me.
00:22Forever.
00:23I never planned on becoming a dad.
00:25I didn't even know it was possible.
00:27Suddenly, I could be gay.
00:29Be married.
00:30And be a father.
00:32It used to be being gay only meant one thing.
00:35And now, I can be anything.
00:37Do they want me to go to court alone?
00:39But he is my son.
00:41I just want to feel like I have options.
00:43Like I have some sort of say in any of this.
00:45But it's not all about you, Thomas.
00:48Do you know how long I've been waiting for a break in my career like this one?
00:52That's not true.
00:53It is.
00:54That is not true!
00:55You and I decided this.
00:57You were devastated!
00:58I was!
00:59I was devastated!
01:00But what about you?
01:02You would have really wanted to leave a loving home to go back and live with your junkie mom.
01:07We knew from day one this was probably going to be temporary.
01:11I didn't want to go through something like that again and lose you.
01:14Maybe we just want different things.
01:16How can you say that?
01:18What you did for Arthur, no one can ever take away.
01:21You need to remember that.
01:23I need to do this for me.
01:26I've been in love exactly three times in my life.
01:29When people say this type of thing, it's implied that love is finite.
01:33First, I loved him.
01:35And then, there's Oscar.
01:38My Huckleberry friend.
01:40My husband.
01:41I will never take that word for granted.
01:44And Arthur.
01:46A son who was never really mine.
01:48Sometimes when everything falls apart and I think to myself that this can't be all there is.
01:54I remember a poem I once read.
01:57Tell me, what else should I have done?
02:00Doesn't everything die at last and too soon?
02:03Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
02:11I don't know what's going to happen.
02:14All I do know is that this is never really all there is.
02:19That possibility of something more is wild.
02:23And it's precious.
02:26It's life.