Prodigal Sons (2008) NYT Critics' Pick

[lsanderson]

Marc McKerrow and Kimberly Reed in “Prodigal Sons.”
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: February 26, 2010

Leaping from Helena, Mont., to Split, Croatia — by way of Old Hollywood — Kimberly Reed’s compelling documentary, “Prodigal Sons,” is filled with revelations.

Some of these are emotional, as when the filmmaker returns home to Helena after a 20-year absence to find that her high school friends treat her no differently from when she was a handsome jock named Paul McKerrow. Others are circumstantial, like the bombshell that reveals her adopted brother, Marc, as a blood relative to Hollywood royalty. More