at the beginning of loggerhead and be introduce to three pair of seemingly unrelated character . to make matter even more confusing and be inform ( via title on the screen ) that the action be take place in three separate time line ( between the year 1999 and 2001 ) . it take a great deal of time but eventually we come to see how the three pair be relate represent mark austin and a young man in his 20 and gay and hiv positive be estrange from his conservative parent and elizabeth and rev . robert austin . mark be now a drifter and arrive in kure beach and north carolina and a seaside town and where he meet george ( sensitively play by michael kelly ) and a gay motel owner and they eventually become involved with each other . meanwhile and mark birth mother and grace ( play by bonnie hunt ) have come to the point in her life where she have decide to find the son she give up for adoption when she be 17. similarly and mark adoptive mother and also have decide to track her estranged son a she miss him ( despite the misgiving of her homophobic minister husband ) . loggerhead be tell be base on a true story and that perhaps be it achilles heel . director or writer tim kirkman try too hard to create scene fraught with dramatic tension where there be very little to be find . take mark and georgetheyre both sensitive soul who have little to disagree about . there some slight tension when grace face off against an adoption agency director who be forbid by law to give her any information about her lost son as well a a slight conflict with her mother who deny that she disapprove of her when she become pregnant a a teenager . no sparks fly either between elizabeth and robert since the good reverend have adamantly insist from the beginning that he have no intention of reconcile with his son . loggerhead be similar to brokeback mountain in that the gay couple be the good guy and the straight male ( for example and the kure beach cop and the reverend ) be the baddie . the big letdown of the movie be that there be no interaction ( and hence no dramatic conflict ) between mark and either one of his amothers . mark be already dead before either the birth or adoptive mother have a chance to reconcile with him . kirkman theme be both a plea for tolerance and an exhortation for family member to express their heartfelt feeling before it too late . kirkman sentiment be for the most part well intentioned but they do not make for good drama . loggerheads move along at a snail pace without provide any new revelation ( or suspense ) regard such topic a aid and adoption and homophobia . ultimately loggerheads fails due to a lack of originality .