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Released
1985 · FILM

Consenting Adult

Directed by
Runtime
100 min
DramaTV Movie

Synopsis

Jeff, a young and shy individual, begins to realize his attraction to men. After an internal struggle, he decides to come out to his parents. His mother eventually listens to him and makes an effort to understand his feelings, but his father reacts with hostility, preferring to die rather than accept his son's truth. In the end, the father does pass away, leaving Jeff, his mother, and his friend to confront and process the unresolved issues between Jeff and his father that they had never been able to discuss.

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Melvin ShapiroShot by Frank StanleyScored by Laurence Rosenthal

Also known as

  • Wie sag ich's meinen Elternde
  • Con el consentimiento de los adultoses
  • Segreto di famigliait

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