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Almost Normal is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 26 may 2005

Almost Normal (2005)

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Released in USA 26 may 2005
Length 1h30
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Science fiction,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama
Rating54% 2.702622.702622.702622.702622.70262

Almost Normal is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Marc Moody.

Synopsis

Brad Jenkins, a 40-year-old gay college professor, is still uncomfortable in his own skin. After a disagreement with mother, he storms out of his home, claiming that he is "going somewhere where [he] is more normal." A sudden car accident propels him back to his youth and into a world in which gay is "normal" and straight is not accepted. Brad has to weigh whether to remain in the past and be "normal" or attempt to return to his old life. A local jock, who had ignored him before, now dates him. However, he grows attracted to a girl— his best friend/sister-in-law in the heteronormative world. The couple attempts to deal with the pressures of being straight in a gay world. Eventually, everyone dances with people of the opposite sex at the school ball, even though they are in the homonormative world, showing Brad's "acceptance" of his straightness is the past and his gay self in real life. He then returns to his life as a professor and re-unites with the jock, who turns out to be the gay father of a student of Brad's.

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