Thom Fitzgerald: I have been with my partner Doug for thirteen years so it was just an interesting thing on my mind, to think about how the world is changing so quickly now and how that would be even more extreme for someone who is 70 or 80 years old, to have doors that are closed one's entire life suddenly open and the realm of possibility suddenly so different that not everyone is eager to go through the newly opened doors. Along the way, the couple pick up a hitchhiker Prentice (Ryan Doucette) who needs to get home to see his dying mother. To do so, they travel north to Nova Scotia. They decide that they should, once and for all, get married to give legal credence to their relationship.
#Cast of cloudburst movie#
"Cloudburst" is essentially a road movie about Stella (Dukakis) and Dot (Fricker), a lesbian couple in Maine who after more than thirty years together, risk being separated by Dot's granddaughter who is oblivious to the couple's relationship. The film could likely be the gay film to crossover to mainstream success. The screen adaptation has been traveling the film festival circuit in Canada since late last year and has picked up awards from Vancouver to Montreal, and stateside in San Francisco, San Diego and Palm Springs.
Originally a stage play, "Cloudburst" won the 2011 Merritt Award, Nova Scotia's theatre award for Best New Play.
If having Oscar winners Olympia Dukakis ("Moonstruck") and Brenda Fricker ("My Left Foot") play a lesbian couple of thirty years is not enough to pique your interest in the new comedy from Thom Fitzgerald ("3 Needles," "The Hanging Garden"), how about watching Olympia Dukakis butch-swearing her way on a trip to Canada to get legally married?
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