“Sometimes there’s a father and a father. Sometimes, both fathers are mothers.”
The trailer for the new stop-motion animated film The Boxtrolls — featuring the voices of Elle Fanning, Simon Pegg, and Ben Kingsley — just debuted. It starts like this.
Cute baby!
Then they add a daddy.
Goodness, that baby's hair gets mussed a lot.
But then things take an unexpected and wonderful turn.
Two dads! In a trailer for a family movie!
There's no mistaking the meaning here. Or how happy the baby is no matter who its parents are.
This is both incredibly timely and incredibly impressive. No other mainstream family film has ever been this forthrightly gay friendly in its trailer.
