Arvin Brown — Director (4)

Movie

Blessings (2003)
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other title: 祝福聲聲 / 祝福声声 …
Released from jail after a term basically served instead of friends he refused to rat out, Charles 'Skip' Cuddy is grateful his gentleman instinct gets him a job with living quarters as handyman on a semi-destitute estate Blessings. Working hard, he wins further confidence from the owner, bitter widow Lydia Blessing, unlike her in-living bitch nurse Jennifer. When a baby is left at the state, Skip takes it in and secretly cares for it. Lydia eventually finds out but sides with him, feeling robbed of grandchildren by her careerist only daughter Meredith. Then Skip's past comes knocking, and the baby's birth parents.

Movie

A Change of Heart (1998)
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other title: 原来如此 / Insoupçonnable vérité …
A woman discovers that her long-time husband has been hiding a secret - he's gay. Joe Marshall is the perfect father and husband and is respected and admired in his community. But Joe is living a lie, a lie he has tried to keep suppressed throughout his marriage. It is only when Elaine catches her husband in bed with his lover that Joe's lie rips through the facade. Joe's lover is a young man. This film is an honest, moving account of a woman struggling to cope with the discovery that her husband and father of her two children, the man that she has worked side by side is gay. The movie sees all four members of the family struggle to integrate this new complication into their family life.