Tru Loved
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| Directed by | Stewart Wade |
| Produced by | David Avallone, producer Eric Borsum, executive producer Antonio Brown, producer Elaine Hendrix, co-producer Eric Miller, executive producer Stewart Wade, producer |
| Written by | Stewart Wade |
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Najarra Townsend Jake Abel Matthew Thompson Alexandra Paul |
| Music by | Chris Nicolaides |
| Cinematography | Howard Wexler |
| Edited by | David Avallone |
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BrownBag Productions (II)
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| Distributed by | Regent Releasing here! Films |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $9,467 |
Tru Loved is a 2008 independent film written and directed by Stewart Wade.
Sixteen-year-old Tru has been raised in San Francisco by two lesbian mothers and two gay fathers. When one of her mothers gets a well-paid job in a multi-cultural but more conservative suburb in Southern California, Tru and her mothers relocate.
When Tru first starts at her new school, teachers welcome her but a group of male football jocks and their female friends bully her and say she looks like a "dyke." One of the footballers, Lodell, changes his mind about her and they start dating, but the relationship never becomes sexual. When they attend The Marvelous Wonderettes musical, Lodell flirts with a man. Tru's fathers suggest that Lodell is gay, and when Tru questions him he finally, reluctantly admits that he is a closeted homosexual. She tells him that she "doesn't want to be his Katie Holmes" but agrees to be his beard so he can continue to be accepted at school.
Tru begins to spend time with Lodell's best friend, fellow footballer Manuel, but when he bullies openly gay classmate Walter, Tru defends Walter and they become friends. They try to establish a Gay Straight Alliance and although a conservative teacher and a closeted English teacher refuse to support the group, the school drama teacher agrees to be the faculty sponsor. The first meeting is successful, with several people attending a long discussion on same-sex marriage in California, but during football practice at the same time, the coach calls the players "ladies," rants that "kids can't even say prayers in class, but the fags...get their own club!" He then asks his team if they want to "put a little muscles into these plays or go meet [their] boyfriends at the Gay Scouts of America," to which they answer that they want to "play ball."
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