Rock Hudson's Home Movies is a 1992 documentary by Mark Rappaport.[1] It shows clips from Rock Hudson's films that could be interpreted as gay entendres.[2][3]
| Rock Hudson's Home Movies | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Mark Rappaport |
| Written by | Mark Rappaport |
| Produced by | Coleen Fitzgibbon Mark Rappaport |
| Cinematography | Mark Daniels |
| Edited by | Mark Rappaport |
Running time | 63 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Eric Farr speaks to the camera as if speaking Rock Hudson's words from a posthumous diary. Film clips from more than 30 Hudson films illustrate ways in which his sexual orientation played out on screen.[4][5][6] First there are tenuous and unresolved relationships with women, then clips of Rock with men, cruising and circling. Second, there is pedagogical eros: Hudson with older men. Rock is seen with his male sidekicks, often Tony Randall.[7][8][9]
Next, the film looks in depth at comedies of sexual embarrassment and innuendo: films in which Hudson sometimes plays two characters, "macho Rock and homo Rock." Lastly, the film reflects on Hudson's death from AIDS.[10]