Outfest 2011 closed its curtains Sunday with “The Perfect Family,” the story of a model Catholic woman’s tensions with her dysfunctional kin, starring Kathleen Turner.

Director Anne Renton introduces us to Eileen Cleary (Kathleen Turner), the raspy-voiced, happy-go-lucky suburban church staple who dedicates her time volunteering in the name of Jesus.

When she is nominated for the coveted “Catholic Woman of the Year” award, Cleary jumps through hoops in order to win, at the expense of her own family.

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With a title that sums it up so well, “We Were Here” is the story of a community fighting a force that threatened to annhilate it.

Thirty years since the mysterious “gay cancer” was first reported, director David Weissman’s second feature documentary follows the moving and intimate stories of five San Franciscans who experienced the epidemic from its onset to the present.

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A survivor of the epidemic himself, Weissman...

“Gun Hill Road,” which kicked Outfest 2011's Opening Night Gala on Friday, is a sophisticated and intimate twist on a father-son drama.

Set in the Bronx, Rashaad Ernesto Green’s first feature film follows Enrique (Esai Morales), a macho ex-inmate returning home from a 3-year prison sentence to find the domestic power he once enjoyed slowly leaving his grasp.

His wife, Angela (Judy Reyes), has been sleeping with someone else in his absence, and it becomes increasingly hard to ignore that his son, Michael (Harmony Santana), is transitioning into Vanessa, a woman.

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