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Alan Ball on how his own painful experiences forged his new film, Uncle Frank – NEWS.com.au
Alan Ball on how his own painful experiences forged his new film, Uncle Frank
Writer and director Alan Ball is used to telling stories about American families.Whether it’s the Fishers and their repressed grief in Six Feet Under, the emotional breakdown of the Burnhams in American Beauty or the secrets of the Stackhouses in True Blood, Ball has written vividly about anxieties and dysfunction within the family unit.
Then the Oscar and Emmy winner turned the mirror on himself and his kin.
Uncle Frank is Ball’s latest work, a feature film that premieres today on Amazon Prime….
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