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The final part of Todd Stephens’s semi-autobiographical Ohio Trilogy evinces the otherness of being queer in small-town America, but fails to make good use of its star.

/ Sandusky-born filmmaker Todd Stephens uses his hometown as the backdrop for his fictionalized memoir "Swan Song." The fictionalized memoir centers around an older gay man in Stephen’s hometown of Sandusky exploring how life has changed over the decades. Just like the first two films in Stephens’ Ohio Trilogy, “Edge of 17” and “Gypsy 83,” “Swan Song” is a coming-of-age story set in Sandusky, except this film trades in youthful revelation for a sense of rediscovery. “Its base...