Movie Review - Other People
On the surface, Other People might seem like a film aimed at winning awards – it follows a young gay man’s return home to his homophobic town and dying mother in order to help with her care. While Other People doesn’t entirely avoid the typical tropes of the cancer story or of the LBGT acceptance story, it plays with these motifs in a way that avoids over-sentimentality. Nor does it reach for any feelings that have not been wholly deserved.