What It Means In Writing

What It Means In Writing is a 2011 American Drama film written by Lynne Ramsay and Rory Kinnear and directed by Lynne Ramsay starring Harrison Ford, Carrie-Ann Moss, Cameron Diaz, Martin Sheen, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Callan McAuliffe, Carey Mulligan and Helen Mirren.

The film secured two BAFTA awards for screenplay and Best Leading Leading Actor: Chris Evans.

The film was released on cinemas on April 19th, 2011 and on DVD and Blu-Ray on October 4th, 2011.

Plot
Herman Atting (Chris Evans) comes out to his straight laced family that he is indeed homosexual and possesses a homosexual boyfriend Martin Corman (Chris Hemsworth).

His father Lars (Harrison Ford) struggles to accept his sons' sexuality and is constantly picked upon by his fellow construction worker friends whilest his brother Truman (Martin Sheen) who lives with them openly states he hates homosexuals as he believes they turn out to be all paedophiles, Lars' younger brother Timothy (Callan McAuliffe) deals with his school friends coming to hate him and the constant bullying and beat-downs he suffers from the school bully whose father is a homophobic gay and lesbian hater.

The only one who completely accepts Herman's sexuality is his bisexual mother Tina (Carrie-Ann Moss) who is engaged in a lesbian relationship with a Tax Accountant Diane Cherry (Cameron Diaz) who begins to spend time with Herman, his boyfriend and 16 year old Timothy.

Tragedy strikes as Timothy is dealt a vicious beating by the school bully and Herman comes to the bully's home to confront the father about his encouragment towards his son to beat up his little brother.

A fight occurs between the two and after Herman knocks the man down he is unfairly struck from behind with a glass bottle and falls to the ground outside hitting the curb with his head at fatal speed.

Herman ends up in acoma and the whole family comes to accept Herman's sexuality.

All including Martin spend time at the hospital with Herman who eventually passes away in his sleep.

A court case then happens to oversee the conviction of Herman's attacker in which the lawyor fighting for his conviction is indeed Diane's younger sister Betty Oran (Carey Mulligan).

They win the case and the bully's father is put behind bars and his kind-hearted mother who had left comes to collect her son at which point before she comes to get him he comes to the Atting residence and apologizes to the family, stating he is sorry about Herman and gives a personal apology to Timothy.

Tina then arrives at the Atting residence after the former bully departs and presents her girlfriend Diane to them.

Lars and the others welcome her into the house and Timothy gives a big hug to both.

They have a nice dinner together in which all including Truman pray for Herman and then begin to eat as Lars and Tina exchange a teary happy glance at each other.