Review: When finding home has to be a choice not a given
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2013
Parker is alone. Has been for years since he was thrown out of his family. His crime? Being gay. Parker travels a lonely road, accepting kindness from strangers, doing what he has to in order to survive. Despite it all, or maybe because of it, he's become a stronger person. All that power of character won't help him as he's down on his luck and needs a helping hand.Enter Grint, a kindly old man who picks Parker up at the side of the road and brings him into town where Parker finds...well, he finds a life.Diana DeRicci has done a wonderful job with Parker. He's sympathetic and you can't help but feel for him the way the townspeople do.One of the scars that Parker carries from his final encounter with his father is a cracked tooth. He needs a dentist desperately. His new friends take him to the town dentist whose name, oddly enough, is Will Parkinson (shhh, don't tell anyone, it's me in disguise!) Dr. Parkinson feels a kindred soul in Parker and he wants to help the troubled young man.From these feelings, a bond of friendship forms. It's good to see them grow as people, real people, with hopes, dreams, aspirations, fears, and the whole nine yards.When Parker gets a phone call from home he knows he needs to be there. Will the trouble waiting for him there force him to stay? Will he ever find his way back to the family he's created?Finding Home should never have to be a choice, but Parker will have to face it head-on.