Posted AT 3:29 AM EDT on 15/11/07
Stick-handling a touchy subject
Post-Brokeback Mountain, homosexuality at the cinema is not groundbreaking, but when the film touches on homosexuality in sports, it still enters taboo territory. Laurie Lynd's Breakfast with Scot, which opens tomorrow in Toronto and Vancouver, doesn't skate around the issue.
"I've always wanted to make mainstream films that are about non-mainstream subjects," the Toronto-based director said last week.
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