Dear Jesse

Can you go home again? What if you're a gay man and home is a state where voters keep electing a homophobe to the US Senate? In 1996, at age 30, native son Tim Kirkman returns to North Carolina to explore the parallels and differences between himself and Jesse Helms: they're from the same town and college, with media interests, from families blessed by adoptions, Baptists by upbringing. Tim puts his camera in front of his family, a boyhood pal, college friends, his pastor, Helms fans, community activists, novelists Lee Smith and Allan Gurganus, a mayor who's gay, and people in the street, including a brief interview with Matthew Shepard. What is it to judge, and what is it to love?

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 322633
  • Status Released
  • Released United States of America September 9, 1997 (Boston Film Festival)
  • Runtime 82 minutes
  • Genres Documentary
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • Trailers English Dear Jesse Trailer (2018)
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  • Box Office Worldwide $17,744 US $17,744
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