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The Truth About Jane (2000)

The Truth About Jane poster
Directed by
Lee Rose
Genre
drama film, LGBTQ-related film, LGBT-related television series
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 57 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl tells her mother she is gay. Her mother struggles with accepting this, leading to conflict between them.

emotionalintimateseriousfamily-centeredhonestconfrontationalsensitiverestrained

What happens

The Truth About Jane is a 2000 Lifetime original movie directed by Lee Rose and starring Stockard Channing, Ellen Muth, Kelly Rowan, Jenny O'Hara and RuPaul (credited as RuPaul Charles). The film is about a teenage girl named Jane (Muth) who struggles with her sexuality and with her mother (Channing) who refuses to accept her. It first aired on TV on August 7, 2000. The film was nominated for several awards, including Outstanding TV Movie from GLAAD, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries (for Channing) from the Screen Actors Guild, and Original Long Form from the Writers Guild of America. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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