Veteran underground filmmaker Curt McDowell turns to Mom with a twist on the old' 'coming out" story and a unique editing style that stretches real time to incorporate more than one response to each event. Written and filmed in 1976, this just-completed family album in formal undress tickles the facts and the sensual fancy at the same time, "less explicit but more hardcore" than the audacious gothic-X-comedy, Thundercrack!

Sparkle's Tavern plays with the inconsistencies of sexual attitudes and conventional symbols until all self-deception is exorcised-what remains is gay for all seasons.