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The Truth About Jane is a film of genre Drama directed by Lee Rose released in USA on 7 august 2000 with Ellen Muth
The Truth About Jane (2000)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 7 august 2000
Length 1h27
Directed by Lee Rose
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Rating66%
The Truth About Jane is a Lifetime Original Movie, directed by Lee Rose, that first aired on TV on August 7, 2000 and stars Stockard Channing, Ellen Muth, Kelly Rowan Jenny O Hara and RuPaul (credited under RuPaul Charles). It's about a teenage girl named Jane (Muth) who struggles not only with her sexuality, but with a mother (Channing) who refuses to accept her.
The film was nominated for several awards, including Outstanding TV Movie by GLAAD, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries (Channing) Screen Actors Guild, and Original Long Form by WGA.
The film ends with a dedication to Matthew Shepard and to "all the men & women who love differently".
Synopsis
The movie begins with Jane narrating about her life from her birth, to her first birthday and even her first day of kindergarten. Then the film jumps to Jane at age 15, starting her first day of high school. Although Jane appears to be happy and a normal teenage girl to her friends and family, inside she's feeling alone and different. Her feelings grow more confusing, when a new girl arrives named Taylor (played by Alicia Lagano) who Jane sees (and says in a voice over) as "different, smarter, wiser." She then continues to say in the voice over that "maybe because she wasn't from here or maybe it was just her. I'm going to go with the last one, because she ended up changing my life.Actors
Ellen Muth
(Jane)
Stockard Channing
(Janice)
Kelly Rowan
(Ms. Lynn Walcott)
Jenny O'Hara
(Beth)
RuPaul
(Jimmy)
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