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Original title: Dear Jesse
Year: 1998
Running time: 83 min.
Country: United States
Director: Tim Kirkman
Screenwriter: Tim Kirkman
Cast: Documentary
Music: John Crooke
Cinematography: Norwood Cheek, Ashley McKinney
Producer: Bang Productions, North Carolina Film Foundation
Genre: Documentary | Gay & Lesbian
Synopsis: In 1996, at age 30, native son Tim Kirkman returns to North Carolina to explore the parallels and differences between himself and Jesse Helms: they're from the same town and college, with media interests, from families blessed by adoptions, Baptists by upbringing. Tim puts his camera in front of his family, a boyhood pal, college friends, his pastor, Helms fans, community activists, novelists Lee Smith and Allan Gurganus, a mayor who's gay, and people in the street, including a brief interview with Matthew Shepard. What is it to judge, and what is it to love?

Awards: 1999: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Truer Than Fiction Award

1998: Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Documentary

1998: Independent Spirit Awards: nominated to Truer Than Fiction Award.

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Dear Jesse

1998

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