'Sal,' James Franco's film about Sal Mineo, is effective at capturing an actor's topsy-turvy life but can't decide about portraying the slain actor as cultural hero or average guy.
At the time of his 1976 murder, Sal Mineo was the rare celebrity to have publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, which might be why the killing was instantly engulfed in rumor-fueled scandal. In "Sal," director James Franco and screenwriter Stacey Miller set out to separate the random stabbing from the life it ended.
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