The 1994 short film "Nunzio's Second Cousin," written and directed by Tom DeCerchio, is a comedy-drama about a gay police officer who brings his boyfriend to a family dinner. Vincent D'Onofrio stars as Nunzio, alongside Eileen Brennan as his mother and Harry Waters Jr. as his date.
Vincent D'Onofrio portrays Sgt. Randozza, a beefy and gay Chicago cop. One night, as he's leaving a bar with his lover, a gang of high-school punks with baseball bats decide to do some "fag-bashing". Tony's gun cools them off, and after giving them a brutally verbal dressing down, he forces the leader of the gang, the leather-jacketed Jimmy, to come to his house the next night for dinner. Jimmy shows up, frightened out of his wits, and in a wild scene that includes Eileen Brennan as Tony's ditzy mother, the young tough gets a harsh lesson in sexual tolerance
