Based on a Broadway play, this film was made for Showtime but
given a theatrical release. It's an intriguing idea, even if the dramaturgy
tends toward the didactic. The jumping-off point here is the scientific
discovery that homosexuality is genetic--and that the gene can be detected in
prenatal testing. This disrupts the Gold family, where Dad (Garry Marshall)
barely tolerates the homosexuality of his son (Brendan Fraser). When pregnant
daughter Jennifer Beals, who is married to a geneticist (Jon Tenney), has the
test and discovers that her fetus will be gay, she triggers a family debate that
pits parents (including mom Faye Dunaway) against son, raising the question of
whether they would have aborted Fraser if they'd known he would be gay. Good
acting can't overcome heavy-handed dialogue, though Fraser and Marshall are
particularly good.