Uncle Frank is a 2020 American comedy-drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Alan Ball.

In 1973, 18-year-old Beth Bledsoe moves from her home in Creekville, South Carolina, to attend college in New York City.

Four years earlier, Frank had provided Beth with life-changing advice to always be herself, no matter what other people thought.

Through events that happen at the party, she discovers that Frank is secretly gay and has actually been living with an Arabic Muslim man named Walid ("Wally") for over ten years.

The next day, Beth's grandfather and Frank's father, Daddy Mac, dies of a sudden heart attack.

Throughout their journey, Frank has flashbacks to his teenage years when he developed a sexual relationship with a local boy named Samuel.

His father eventually caught them in bed together and called Frank an abomination against God as well as several homophobic slurs and insults based on his Christian beliefs.

A panicked Beth rushes to inform Wally, who drives them to the nearby lake where he suspects Frank went.

The site's critics consensus reads: "Uncle Frank finds writer-director Alan Ball still untangling the modern American family dynamic, aided by standout work from Paul Bettany and Sophia Lillis.