Mulligans

Drama 

Mulligan (noun): A golf shot not tallied against the score, granted in informal play after a poor shot especially from the tee  

Set amid the polite homophobia of the upper middle class, Mulligans is a fresh take on coming out, ripe with adventure, revelations and betrayal.  

Beer-swilling, sports-playing Tyler Davidson invites his college buddy Chase to spend the summer holidays with the picture-perfect Davidson family. But when things don’t click between Chase and the hot local girls, Chase comes out and Tyler unexpectedly has to cope with having a gay best friend. 

That’s not the only surprise. Tyler’s mother Stacey (Thea Gill from Queer as Folk) yanks Birdy, the family’s precocious eight-year-old, away from her carnal explorations with a local boy and thrusts her right into the arms of a female tennis coach. But pre-adolescent lesbianism is nothing compared to the heartbreak that ensues for the whole family when Stacey discovers her husband Nathan has his own secret. 

Official Selection Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2008
Official Selection Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 

Director Chip Hale
Canada, 2008, 92mins