Dr. Jim Marshall (John Terry) is the perfect father and husband, happily married for 20 years to Elaine (Jean Smart). The couple have raised two well-adjusted teen-agers, Jesse (Phillip Geoffrey Hough) and Sarah (Shawna Waldron), and they are very respected and admired in their community in Oregon. Jim is a successful doctor, with a stable career, and his wife has worked side by side with him to found a medical institute. They have two houses, one in the city and one in the country. Elaine anticipates the worst when she goes to a hotel room where her husband is renting a room, expecting to catch Jim with another woman. She is shocked and shattered to discover he is having a gay affair with a man. Her husband is gay! There is pain, anger, and tears. The marriage explodes and after the initial trauma, the couple struggle to find peace, acceptance and to rebuild their lives. The movie shows all four members of the family trying to cope with this gay crisis. Although the last few scenes stretch credibility to the breaking point, Jean's spirit at the end will give a lot of viewers hope.
This is a Lifetime Network Original Movie, a drama made especially for the Lifetime cable TV network. The male lover is quite two dimensional, and seems to have a home of his own, so why were they meeting in a hotel? The Marshall teenagers are tiresomely belligerent, and Jesse attacks a young gay man because he can't bear the fact that his father is gay. It also becomes difficult to sympathize with Jean, who behaves like an insufferable bitch to everyone after her discovery. Aaron Mendelsohn wrote the script, Patrick Williams composed the music, and Arvin Brown directed.
