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Long ago in San Francisco, filmmaker Kimberly Reed left behind Paul McKerrow, the high-school quarterback and straight ‘A’ student. Her transition from male to female now complete, Kim thought she had successfully buried her past along with the “M” that used to be on her drivers license. Returning to Montana, for the first time in two decades, Kim is determined to mend her estranged relationship with Marc, her adopted brother who has difficulty controlling his mood swings a result of a traumatic head injury. Marc would have given anything to be the man that his younger sibling Paul never wanted to be, and soon it is evident that the intense resentment and jealously that marked their childhood relationship has lasted into adulthood. Dispirited by the bad hand life dealt him, Marc has spent a lifetime looking for his birth-parents. When he receives the stunning (and true) news that he is the hitherto unknown grandson of two Hollywood legends, Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, Kim is forced to face her own history as Paul. Illuminating and intriguing, Prodigal Sons is a powerful must-see documentary.

 -- Carol Coombes