Big Eden
Overview
Big Eden is a gay
Gay
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-themed romantic drama film written and directed by Thomas Bezucha
Thomas Bezucha
Thomas Gordon Bezucha is an American screenwriter and director.He wrote and directed Big Eden and The Family Stone . He is a graduate of Amherst Regional High School in Amherst, Massachusetts. He will next direct Monte Carlo, which he co-wrote with April Blair.Bezucha is openly gay.-External...

. It won awards from several gay and lesbian film festival
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s, and was nominated for best limited release film at the GLAAD Media Awards
GLAAD Media Awards
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 in 2002.
The film stars Arye Gross
Arye Gross
-Biography:Gross was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Sheri and Joseph Gross, who was an aerospace engineer and later worked in business....

 as Henry Hart, a successful gay artist from New York City
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 who returns to his rural hometown in Montana
Montana
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 to care for his ailing grandfather. Henry is welcomed back by the townsfolk, all of whom are aware of his sexuality and are highly accepting and even supportive towards him (the film's plot and dialogue notably has a complete absence of homophobic content).
 
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