In Theaters:
8: The Mormon Proposition
In 2008, the California Supreme Court ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. One of the first couples to get married was Tyler Barrick and Spencer Jones, the almost improbably happy couple introduced at the start of Reed Cowan’s passionate but scattered documentary about the religious conservative fight to rescind their right to marry. Although Cowan’s film deals in a broader way with the movement that opposes gay civil rights, it’s much more specifically an attack on the Mormon church and its role in that movement. Interestingly, not only are almost all of the subjects interviewed in the film Mormon (current or ex) but all the filmmakers – including Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black – are as well. For his part, Cowan was a onetime Mormon evangelist. Everyone has axes to grind…
8: The Mormon Proposition is out now in limited release. You can read the full review at filmcritic.com.
