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00:00The movie begins with a young boy named Todd singing loudly.
00:04His brother, Chet, tells him to stop singing or their father will get mad but Todd refuses
00:09to stop.
00:10Just as his brother had warned, Todd heard his father screaming and telling him to stop
00:14singing.
00:15Chet shuts off the lights and prepares for bed while Todd discovers a hidden men's magazine
00:19under his brother's bed and starts flipping through it.
00:22He asks Chet about it but Chet snatches the magazine from him and hides it under his pillow.
00:27With no choice left, Todd lies down next to his brother and pretends to sleep.
00:31He then slowly pulls out the magazine from under Chet's pillow and starts flipping
00:35through it.
00:36As soon as Chet notices this, he once again tries to snatch the magazine from his brother.
00:40However, Todd manages to hold onto the magazine tightly and jumps off the bed.
00:45As he is flipping through it, that homophobic father bursts through the door and asks them
00:49why they have been creating so much noise.
00:52When he notices the magazine in Todd's hands, he snatches it from him and takes him out
00:56of the room to punish him.
00:58Years later, a grown-up Chet is woken up early in the morning by the sound of a horn blaring
01:02in his front yard.
01:03He notices that the thrift store employees have arrived and gets up to let them in.
01:07The men package up his father's belongings since he had passed away three months ago.
01:12When one of the employees sees him looking sad, he pats him on the shoulder and tells
01:15him that they can come back when he is ready.
01:18However, Chet insists that he is fine since it has already been three months.
01:22The employee assures him that it takes time to move on.
01:25Once they are done packing everything, the employee gets Chet to sign a document before
01:29he turns to leave.
01:30Chet takes this as a sign and tries to ask him out but the man turns down his offer to
01:34buy him a drink.
01:36Chet then goes to his father's hardware store, where he is now managing and helps an elderly
01:40man find the equipment he needs.
01:42At the cash register, the man tells Chet that he should start thinking about starting a
01:46family but Chet ignores this and moves on.
01:49That night, he eats his dinner alone but is unable to stop thinking about his father.
01:53He finds himself staring at his urn but quickly turns it away.
01:56He gets a flashback from the day he found Todd playing with a doll.
02:00Before their father could have seen them, Chet managed to take the doll from Todd and
02:03throw it under their house.
02:05He recalls how strict their father was as he packs a birthday gift, a juicer, for Todd
02:10and wonders if staying in their small town was worth it.
02:13In the present time, Todd, who is now openly living as a gay man in LA, is getting broken
02:18up to.
02:19His boyfriend tries explaining that things are no longer working for them.
02:22Angry, he goes to the bar where he works but finds out he is also losing his job.
02:27Todd begins to act recklessly as he sleeps around with random strangers and lives out
02:31of his truck while figuring out what to do next.
02:34Back in town, Chet is shopping at a supermarket when he runs into his high school crush, Brandon.
02:39The two of them catch up and Brandon reveals that he is in town for the next few weeks
02:43since his mother had a stroke.
02:44Before he leaves, he exchanges numbers with Chet and makes him promise to call him.
02:49When Chet gets home from work that night, Todd appears behind him and surprises him.
02:53Although he is shocked to see his little brother back, Chet welcomes Todd back into their house
02:58and even takes him to meet Anne, a close family friend of theirs who handles the cash register
03:02at the hardware store.
03:04Anne happily greets him and claims that she will now be able to take a day off.
03:08Once the two brothers return home, Todd looks around the house and is surprised to see that
03:12not much has changed since he left.
03:14This is when he also finds their father's urn and tells Chet that he needs to deal with
03:18the ashes.
03:19Chet confesses that he has been meaning to do it but hasn't had the time.
03:23Knowing that his brother will never get to it if he doesn't write it in big bold letters
03:26on his calendar, Todd marks the 20th of December as a reminder for Chet.
03:30Chet then prepares the bed for Todd but they end up sharing their childhood bunk.
03:34In the morning, Chet wakes his brother up and reminds him that he needs to help in the
03:38store since Anne took a day off.
03:40However, Todd refuses to get up, leaving Chet to deal with the store alone.
03:44Anne shows up just in time, knowing that Todd will not live up to his word.
03:48After returning home from work, Chet finds Todd in their living room and asks him what
03:52is wrong.
03:53At first, Todd does not want to open up but eventually does, claiming that he feels like
03:58he never belonged in his relationship.
04:00The next day, Todd wakes up to find that Chet has prepared breakfast for him and left a
04:04note to make him feel better.
04:06Meanwhile, Chet contemplates calling Brandon but hesitates just as another customer walks
04:11into the store.
04:12He deals with the customer and then closes the store for the day.
04:15As soon as he gets home, he walks into Todd standing completely naked in the kitchen,
04:20getting off with a stranger online.
04:22When Todd notices his brother, he rushes to his room but leaves his mess in the kitchen
04:26behind.
04:27Seeing this, Chet goes to Todd's room to ask him to clean up but discovers that Todd is
04:31still at it with the stranger.
04:33Chet tells Todd that he is not going to clean up after him and asks him to clean the kitchen.
04:38Todd heads into the kitchen and starts cleaning up but Chet intervenes and cleans along with
04:42him.
04:43He then asks Todd to go to the hardware store with him in the morning so that he can see
04:46the cute post guy.
04:48After much persuasion, Todd agrees to accompany him.
04:51As expected, Todd is late and while Chet waits for his younger brother to get ready, he receives
04:56a text message from Brandon, asking to meet him at a club for drinks later that day.
05:00At work, Chet handles the cash register while Todd helps the customers.
05:05He flirts with the customers and manages to get higher sales than usual.
05:09As they are closing up, Chet tells Todd that Brandon has reached out to him and wonders
05:13if he is gay.
05:14But Todd is sure that Brandon is gay and is hitting on Chet.
05:17Later that evening, Chet and Todd attend a bonfire hosted by their friends.
05:21They catch up with some of their old friends who tell Todd that he has managed to drag
05:25his older brother away from his job.
05:27By the time it gets dark, a man named Hank mocks Todd by saying that all of the gay people
05:32from LA should be tied.
05:34His joke doesn't land very well and things get a bit awkward.
05:37To make matters worse, his girlfriend Melissa who used to be Todd's best friend comes up
05:41to him and starts flirting.
05:43This does not sit well with Hank and he threatens to beat Todd who gets angry as well.
05:47Todd reveals that he had told Melissa his secret in high school and she had told a boyfriend
05:51who beat him up along with his friends.
05:53Before things can escalate, Chet tries to diffuse the situation and apologizes to everyone
05:58before leaving with Todd.
05:59At home, he tries to reason with Todd but he refuses to hold a conversation and strips
06:04down in front of Chet, ending the conversation before it could start.
06:07The next morning a woman walks into the hardware store and asks to buy material.
06:12As he is helping her, Todd notices her snatching a doll away from her son and telling him to
06:16play with his boy toys.
06:18Since he had experienced something similar when he was younger, Todd tells the woman
06:21to let her child play with the doll.
06:23He even goes as far as to say that his son might be gay.
06:27Horrified, the woman leaves the store and promises to never return.
06:31On the other hand, Chet goes on a date with Brandon but it gets awkward as Brandon starts
06:35telling him an irrelevant story.
06:37Seeing Chet's face, Brandon confesses that he felt bad about ignoring him when they were
06:41younger since he did not feel ready to come out as gay.
06:44Chet then tells him that it was hard for him to make the move as well.
06:48Soon their date ends and Chet bids Brandon goodbye after telling him that he does not
06:51have to go out with him out of obligation.
06:54Once he returns home, a sexually frustrated Chet starts jerking off in his bathroom when
06:58he hears a commotion outside.
07:00To his surprise, he discovers that the sheriff who was patrolling the area had found Todd
07:04with another man in a compromising position.
07:07The sheriff tells Chet that Todd could be charged with indecent exposure, especially
07:11since their town still had sodomy laws in place.
07:14Chet apologizes for his brother's behavior and manages to convince the sheriff to let
07:18him go with a warning.
07:20Angry, Chet reminds Todd that his behavior is causing him to lose business.
07:24At that moment, Chet gets another flashback of the night their father had discovered Todd
07:28with the magazine.
07:30After punishing Todd, his father returns to take a magazine from Chet while Todd silently
07:34goes back to bed.
07:35Chet decides to take Todd away for the getaway so that they can start fresh.
07:39The two of them go hiking where Todd reveals that he used to envy Chet because he had managed
07:43to pull his life together and had their father's approval.
07:47While they sit around the bonfire, Todd encourages Chet to start going out with new people and
07:51be open about his sexuality but Chet has his reservations.
07:55Once they return, Todd once again encourages Chet to go out with Brandon again.
08:00At the hardware store the next day, the same old man comes in to buy materials when he
08:04tells Chet to not let Todd rub off on him again and that he should get married.
08:09Finally feeling confident enough, Chet tells the old man to send eligible bachelors his
08:13way.
08:14This shuts the old man up who then proceeds to pay for his materials and leave without
08:18saying anything else.
08:20When Chet returns home, he finds Todd dancing in the fields and asks him if he can cook
08:24dinner for him and Brandon who he had invited over that night.
08:28The dinner goes well as Todd cooks them a nice meal.
08:30Things begin to get a little serious when Brandon asks them about their mother, only
08:34to find out that she left when they were very young.
08:37To lighten the mood, Todd suggests that they should smoke a joint.
08:40As they share a joint, Todd sings them a song that their father used to sing before heading
08:44up to the roof.
08:45Chet and Brandon follow him as he starts undressing.
08:48Chet leaves to use the bathroom while Todd flirts with Brandon.
08:51Just as Chet enters the room, he notices Todd kissing Brandon.
08:55Although Brandon breaks the kiss quickly, Todd becomes upset and heads to the kitchen.
09:00Todd follows him and starts apologizing, claiming that he was trying to help Chet by checking
09:04to see if Brandon was into both of the brothers.
09:07Tired of his excuses, Chet calls Todd selfish and tells him that he refuses to put his needs
09:12behind to take care of others.
09:14Things get heated up and Todd picks up the keys to their dirt bike.
09:18Chet tries to stop his brother, telling him that he is too high to drive, but Todd ignores
09:22him and drives away.
09:24By the time Brandon joins Chet in the kitchen, he is too upset to listen to him as tries
09:29to reassure him that he is not interested in Todd.
09:32Chet goes to bed in his father's bedroom but is unable to sleep until later that night.
09:36However, he receives a call from the sheriff in the middle of the night because Todd got
09:40into a fight at the bar.
09:42The sheriff tells Chet that Todd needs to respect everyone's boundaries in their town.
09:46Realizing that the sheriff sounds like their father, Chet tunes him out.
09:50When he wakes up in the morning the next day, he tells Todd that he needs to go.
09:54At first, Todd argues that the house belongs to him as well but when Chet refuses to budge
09:59from his decision, he leaves the house.
10:01Chet starts spiraling as soon as his brother leaves and even hooks up with a random stranger.
10:06To make matters worse, he tells his friend that he does not feel like hosting Christmas
10:10this year.
10:11Chet tries working but is unable to concentrate.
10:14Putting him so down, Ann offers him food and assures him that Todd has disappeared
10:18before and will soon return.
10:20On the 20th of December, Chet drives up to the creek his father loved to spread his ashes.
10:25To his surprise, Todd shows up there as well.
10:27When Chet asks him why he is there, he reminds his brother that he is his father as well.
10:32Chet angrily tells him that he doesn't get to return whenever he wants to but Todd reveals
10:37that their father hated him.
10:38Chet starts yelling and tells his brother that their father hated him because he left
10:42just like their mother.
10:43On Christmas Eve, Todd and Chet join their friends for their Christmas party when Brandon
10:48shows up there as well.
10:49Chet starts to apologize but Brandon tells him that he understands what family can be
10:54like.
10:55Suddenly, Chet kisses him and the two of them make out until it is time for them to open
10:59presents.
11:00Later that night, Chet and Todd end up alone where Todd tells him that his friend Lucas
11:04contacted him and asked him to join him in backpacking Portland.
11:08Chet confesses that Brandon invited him to New York and Todd encourages him to join his
11:12boyfriend.
11:13As Todd leaves, Chet gets another flashback of their father cooking them a Christmas meal
11:17when they were younger.
11:19When the two brothers start fighting over food, their father tells them that they are
11:22brothers and they need to take care of each other.
11:24At the end of the movie, Chet and Todd finally spread their father's ashes over the creek
11:28together, just like their father wanted.