La Mission (2009)

Benjamin Bratt stars as a tough-ass Latino ex-con who freaks out after discovering his teenage son is gay. This follows the predictable pattern, and I suppose if it didn't, it wouldn't work. What prevents this from being an after school special is the acting, which is wonderful. I shit you not, all the leads are tremendous. The script is pretty good, too. Writer/director Peter Bratt (Benji's brother) seems to have taken care to write simplistic yet effective dialog and to steer his actors toward very naturalistic performances. If taken scene by scene, it's highly satisfying, so you don't really care that you can guess where this is going.