Breakfast With Scot

A decidedly non-stereotypical gay male couple finds their efforts to keep their personal and professional lives completely separate challenged by the arrival of the gay nephew whose presence threatens to reveal their closely guarded secret in director Laurie Lynd's drama. Eric (Tom Cavanagh) is a ...more

The success of Laurie Lynd's Breakfast with Scot hinges almost entirely on the performance of young Noah Bernett in the title role. Give most Hollywood child actors a showy role like the unusual preteen Scot and you would probably get a very self-conscious performance. Perhaps they make them differently in Canada, but Bernett comes through with a startlingly naturalistic and, finally, moving turn. Scot is a movie-style oddball, singing Christmas carols in a quavering falsetto to comfort himself, ...more