
Consenting Adult
1985

Representation Score
Fair
1986
Director
Herbert Wise
Runtime
100 minutes
Average Rating
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Welcome Home, Bobby is a mid-80s drama that tackles sensitive social taboos by focusing on a central sexual conflict. It disrupts traditional norms while maintaining established gender roles and lacking significant racial diversity. The film serves as a critique of conservative institutions, highlighting the consequences of social non-conformity.
Category Breakdown
The film features a non-traditional relationship between a teenager and an older man, which leads to social conflict and explores the consequences of breaking societal taboos.
Traditional gender roles are maintained, with a conservative father serving as an authority figure and a mother acting as an emotional mediator.
The story focuses on a blue-collar Chicago family without providing evidence of a diverse or non-white cast. Themes of class and sexual morality are emphasized over racial diversity.
The film criticizes traditional Western institutions by depicting schools and families as forces of rejection. It challenges strict, conservative moralism through the lens of community shunning.
There is no information available regarding the inclusion of characters with visible or invisible disabilities.
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Official Synopsis
When a Chicago teen is arrested for drug possession, the ensuing investigation reveals that he has had sexual contact with an older man. Discovering his sexual encounter, other students start shunning him and call for his expulsion from school. His conservative blue-collar dad also rejects him, while his mother does try to offer support.

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