The Reception is 2005 feature film by American director

Film director

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 John G. Young

John G. Young

John G. Young is an American director, producer and writer. He graduated from the State University of New York at Purchase .His works include Parallel Sons in 1995, The Reception in 2005 and Rivers Wash Over Me in 2009. He has also produced Garden in 2004. Most of his materials are related to gay...

 who wrote and directed the movie.

Plot

It is a drama set in wintry upstate New York. Hoping to cash in on an inheritance, Sierra (Margaret Burkwit) and her husband Andrew (Darien Sills-Evans) arrive at her mother's Jeannette's home only to discover resentful Jeannette (played by Pamela Holden Stewart) and her companion, the African-American artist Martin (Wayne Lamont Sims). Because the gay

Gay

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Martin is unable to satisfy her sexually, Jeannette takes to embarrassing him whenever she's drunk, yet Martin takes the abuse in strides.

Jeannette's daughter Sierra arrives as grandmother's fortune is hers to have once she is married. The newly-weds plan to stay just long enough to run away with the money. But, Jeannette throws a spanner in the works when she announces an impromptu wedding reception.

John G. Young really taps into the story's numerously painful racial and sexual hot zones. Characters sometimes ask each other questions they should already know the answers to.

Cast

• Pamela Holden Stewart as Jeannette
• Darien Sills-Evans as Andrew
• Wayne Lamont Sims as Martin
• Margaret Burkwith as Sierra
• Chris Burmester as Chuck