Ben Shenkman

BREAKFAST WITH SCOT
RUNNING TIME 90 minutes
WRITTEN BY Sean Reycraft
DIRECTED BY Laurie Lynd
STARRING Thomas Cavanagh, Ben Shenkman, Noah Bernett

Breakfast With Scot is being called the first gay family film, whatever that is. It certainly has “wholesome” scrawled all over it in pink. Tom Cavanagh, the toothy, bright-eyed charmer from the popular TV series Ed, stars as Eric McNally, a gay network sports announcer and ex-pro hockey player for the Maple Leafs, who keeps his private life a secret for fear of ruining his career and disillusioning his fans. (Traditionally, hockey is apparently ragingly homophobic.) So he and his life partner, Sam (Ben Shenkman), a sports lawyer, are not your stereotypical “out” couple.  read more »