One man is initially unhappy when his partners temporarily ends up with custody of an eleven year old orphan, but it soon turns out that the child is exceedingly flamboyant.
Breakfast with Scot (2007)
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The hockey career of former Toronto Maple Leaf Eric McNally, who was known as a tough enforcer, came to an end with a shoulder injury. He is now a sportscaster. Except to his assistant Nula, what he hasn’t told his work colleagues is that he is gay and that he is in a long term relationship with a sports lawyer named Sam. Eric feels that he can’t be openly gay as an ex-hockey player or as a public figure still associated with professional hockey. Eric and Sam’s life is turned upside down when they take temporary custody of Scot Latour, whose drug addict mother, Julie, recently passed away from a drug overdose. Julie assigned custody of Scot to her ex-boyfriend, Billy, who is Sam’s deadbeat brother. Sam is certain that Billy will eventually come for Scot when he learns that Julie’s insurance money also comes with custody. Having only had Julie’s influence in his life, Scot is a flamboyant adolescent, who wears make-up, a feather boa and his mother’s charm bracelet, and who loves musicals and singing Christmas carols. As they all wait for Billy’s arrival, Eric, despite not being Scot’s father, and Scot have to figure out how to come to terms with each other – Scot being a boy who expresses himself freely whatever the consequences, and Eric always being concerned about maintaining a macho exterior – within their temporary guardian/charge relationship.
LOVED it!
awesumrossum4 January 2010 – imdb
I had never heard of the movie at all before seeing it – saw it from my movie channel…
As soon as I saw the Toronto Maple Leafs, I was set up to be disappointed, but am glad I perservered. Hate to say it as a Canadian myself, but Canadian-made movies do not inspire the best expectations.
I am SO happy about having seen Breakfast with Scot. I just loved the whole idea that the gay couple was worried about the kid being “too gay”.
Just because I haven’t seen a kid like Scot, doesn’t mean they aren’t out there, however, that was the only part that seemed a little far-fetched to me. Everything else seemed like that’s the way it would happen given that circumstance… The acting was fantastic and the plot itself was just so unique and refreshing.
And, of course, having watched it with zero information, I had no idea there was any kind of gay theme whatsoever until the plot revealed itself. This movie is not about being gay – it is about relationships. The ‘gay’ part of this movie should hold no bearing on whether to see it or not. I am not gay and I LOVED it. I bought a copy. In fact, I bought two copies and gave one to friends of mine that I felt might be not open-minded enough to see it on my simple recommendation. They enjoyed it too.
Everyone should see this movie. You will laugh out loud!
