Vicki Luke Movies
"Everlasting Secret Family" is the name of a sub-rosa homosexual brotherhood in this riveting Australian film. Two of the ESF members are a middle-aged politician (Arthur Dignam) and a boarding-school student (Mark Lee). The younger man begins chafing at the "plaything" status imposed upon him by the older members of ESF. His resentment culminates in a battle of wills between himself and the senator's politically expedient "straight" wife (Heather Mitchell). Dispensing with subtlety, Everlasting Secret Family suggests that, like the so-called mainstream political scene, the gay lifestyle can become a dangerously manipulative power trip in the wrong hands. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Arthur Dignam, Mark Lee, (more)
- 1985
Made for Australian television, Whose Baby? is based on a true story. Angela Punch-McGregor stars as a young mother who suffers from grave misgivings after leaving the hospital with her newborn baby. She suspects that the child isn't hers, and that the hospital has inadvertently switched her infant with someone else's. Part one of this two-part drama establishes her trepidations; part two delineates the official cover-up and subsequent litigation. The American premiere of Whose Baby? occurred over the A&E cable network in 1990, five years after the drama was first aired in Australia. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
