He's a serious guy, delaying his own future for the sake of Cody. His best friend, Gabe ( Ross Thomas), parties all the time at the University of Santa Barbara and wants Zach to join him, but Zach wants to go to art school. Zach is a young man with dreams, but who is weighed down by his responsibilities. So Zach doesn't get out much, even to see his longtime girlfriend Torie ( Katie Walder), who is frustrated by his lack of physical attention.
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Like the abominable mother played by Oscar-nominated Amy Ryan in " Gone Baby Gone," Jeanne knows exactly how to manipulate others into taking last-minute responsibility for her kid. Zach ( Trevor Wright) is the de facto live-in baby-sitter for his trashy sister Jeanne ( Tina Holmes) and his beloved 5-year-old nephew Cody ( Jackson Wurth). Prime-time man-kissing (seriously, romantically) on prime-time "network" TV wouldn't come until 26 years later, on the WB's "Dawson Creek" in 2000.īut back to Pedro (PEE-droe), which "Shelter" renders with an attentive, insider's eye, from the run-down, graffiti-tagged neighborhoods in sight of the Vincent Thomas Bridge to the posh McMansions across the tracks.
Jonah Markowitz's "Shelter" is a Sundancey made-for-cable coming-out story from the here! network, which bills itself as "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Television." In 1974, "Shelter" would have been run as a Movie of the Week, but the two San Pedro surfers would not have kissed.