This Friday, Oct. 24, a film comes to the Metro that addresses a score of important, queer social issues in the arena of a California high school. Viewers will be exposed to gay-straight alliances, internalized homophobia, externalized hate crimes, a plethora of stereotypes, and the struggles of growing up trapped in the closet.

Unfortunately, Tru Loved, the sixth film from writer/director Steven Wade, is overacted, strangely written and more than anything, tries to say far too much in 104 minutes.

Tru — short for Gertrude Stein — is played by Najarra Townsend, the awkward, underage fellator Rebecca from Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005). Townsend’s brief performances in this earlier film far outshines her role in Tru Loved.

As the straight daughter of four gay parents — two moms and two dads — Tru struggles to find her place among the apparently pin-straight and exclusively homophobic town her mothers relocate to.

In her new high school, and in fact, the whole town, it seems almost everyone is queer, homophobic or both. Girls at school shun Tru because, apparently, failing to show one’s cleavage or apply massive amounts of hairspray count as dressing butch. When Tru brings home a boy, Lo, her mother immediately identifies him as a closet case. Lo claims Tru as a girlfriend — really a cover for his football player facade — but loses her when she confronts him about his orientation and is met with extreme prejudice.

Tru forms a gay-straight alliance with Walter, Lo’s lover, and 30 or so other students to shatter the hate and presumptions of their community.

They discover queer teachers both “in” and “out,” organize events and somehow, apparently off-screen, transform the entire dynamic of their town in weeks.

On the way, Tru meets a boy more suited for a hetero-normative relationship: Trevor understands Tru because he’s been raised by a gay uncle. In a sickeningly sweet and highly implausible — but predictable — end, Trevor’s uncle officiates a symbolic marriage ceremony between Tru’s mothers.

In attendance are Tru’s and Trevor’s parents, several teachers from school, various tolerant and accepting friends and even Lo, with his suddenly understanding group of friends.

Tru Loved is not a film with queer characters, themes or plot points.

Rather, it is a movie oversaturated with homosexuality and fear thereof — to the point of ridiculousness.

It could serve well as a general education film for those who have never been exposed to stereotypically queer issues, but the film plays out with neither tact nor subtlety and reads more as a barrage of ideas laid over a trite excuse for a storyline.

Those with a genuine interest in queer issues should investigate the controversy filmmakers met when searching for an available high school set.

Reach A&E editor Maddie Hall at arts@dailyuw.com