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"lively, inclusive, and comprehensive."
- Los Angeles Times
Tying The Knot
Extremely relevant, highly entertaining and utterly humanist, the critically-acclaimed film festival favorite TYING THE KNOT poignantly explores one of today's hottest issues, the political war between gay people who want to marry and those determined to stop them.

If you lost the one you love, how would it feel to have your love placed on trial? After a bank robber's bullets ends the life of cop Lois Marrero, her wife of thirteen years, Mickie, discovers a police department willing to accept the women's relationship but unwilling to release Lois's pension. When Oklahoma rancher Sam loses his husband of 25 years, cousins of the deceased spouse challenge his will and move to evict Sam from his home. As Mickie and Sam take up battle stations to defend their lives, TYING THE KNOT digs deeply into the past and present to uncover the meaning of marriage today, focusing on such key issues as rights, privilege, and love.

Passionately directed by Jim de Sève, TYING THE KNOT is an eye-opening examination of the institution of marriage, featuring amazing footage of gay hippies storming the Manhattan marriage bureau in 1971, plus inspired interviews with gay activists and right-wing politicos.



SUZANNE M SHERIDAN 4/27/2005
I am pleased that we bought this film to educate those in our church.
However, being from the Northeast ,it seems odd that you only chose to show these two cases which were two cases in which there was no clear win and in the case of the second, a clear loss shown. Do we only want to show people cases where there is no way shown to fight this depressing outcome"? I think there should be , as a gay woman, cases shown as to how the laws for Civil Union are helping in Massachussetts and CT and Other places so that we show people hope, and a way to be more proactive on their own behalf. Not to leave us depressed and with no clear blueprint. This moviei is a good first start but it does not go far enough . It should not be about these two cases, but about the things that can be done to move us ahead... if more cases had been used, like in Micheal Moore's documentaries, then it would have been less about these two couples and more about a broad array of possibilities ...

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