Loggerheads

Tim Kirkman's "Loggerheads," which is set in three North Carolina locales at millennium's end, is a delicate if somewhat soap-operatic Southern mood piece that occasionally clicks. Intertwining three stories set from about 1998 to 2000, it's a sad tale that revolves around anti-gay prejudice, Southern cultural isolation, and adoption laws that make it hard for adopted children and their birth parents to find each other. In "Loggerheads," loosely based on a real-life story, that becomes the stuff of pathos and tragedy. (Full review)