Cloudburst

This hilarious road movie co-stars O-winning actresses Brenda Fricker and Olympia Dukakis as Dot and Stella, a crackerjack lesbian couple on the run from a nursing home. You ll laugh so hard you ll cry. Stella and Dot have been together for 31 years and have faithfully accompanied one another through life s ups and downs. Now in their seventies, Stella is hard of hearing and Dot is legally blind. Dotty s prudish granddaughter, Molly (played by Genie Award-winner Kristin Booth), decides the best place for Dot is a nursing home that will provide all the necessities. This forces Stella and Dot to make a bold decision: they will leave their hometown in Maine and make their way to Canada, where same-sex marriage is legal. It s a last-p bid to stay together. En route to Canada, they pick up a young hitchhiker, Prentice, played by newcomer Ryan Doucette. A small-town boy turned modern dancer, he is returning to Nova Scotia to visit his dying mother. Despite his bravado, Prentice is a confused and wounded soul who has much to learn from Stella and Dot as they wage their own unexpected battle after three decades, can they keep their family together? BONUS FEATURES- Featurettes, Trailer, More from Wolfe Review ------ A rousing, frequently rowdy comedy with considerable crossover appeal... Dukakis outdoes even her most memorable earlier turns. --Variety Must-see road film with a new twist at just about every turn... brilliant and witty --Pittsburgh Post Gazette Winner of 36 Awards including Best Feature, Palm Springs Int'l Film Fest, Atlanta Film Festival, San Diego Film Out, Southwest Film Festival, St. Louis Q Fest, Indianapolis Film Fest and many more. --Wolfe P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Actor --------------- OLYMPIA DUKAKIS (Stella) Olympia Dukakis is an actress, director, producer, teacher, activist and author. Her resume includes a multitude of theatre, film and television credits, as well as prestigious awards. She received an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category, the New York Film Critics Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award, and the Golden Globe Award for her work in the 1987 film Moonstruck. Her other feature films include Mr. Holland's Opus with Richard Dreyfus; Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite; I Love Trouble with Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts; The Cemetery Club, Steel Magnolias, and the Look Who's Talking movies. A resident of New York City, she has starred in two other films directed by Thom Fitzgerald: The Event and 3 Needles. Dukakis taught acting in the graduate school at New York University for 15 years and currently teaches master classes at various universities and colleges throughout the United States. Her memoir, Ask Me Again Tomorrow, was a best-seller. She is a founding member of Voices of Earth, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and a member of many advocacy organizations. In CLOUDBURST, Dukakis plays Stella, a domineering lesbian who is nonetheless devoted to her long-time partner. BRENDA FRICKER (Dot) Brenda Fricker won an O for Best Supporting Actress in 1990, for her performance in My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown, directed by Jim Sheridan. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe for that role. The Irish actress went on to leading roles in films including How About You, Closing The Ring, Tara Road, Inside I'm Dancing, Conspiracy of Silence, Trauma, Omagh, A Man of No Importance, The Intended, War Bride, Resurrection Man, Painted Angels, A Time to Kill, Swann, Angels in the Outfield, Home Alone II, UTZ, The Field, and Albert Nobbs, in which she plays the role of Polly. Her television work in North America has included roles in Going Down: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss, Torso, Cupid & Gate, Resurrection, Durango, Journey, and A Woman of Independent Means. On British television, Fricker created the role of nurse Megan Roche in Casualty for BBC. Her other credits include No Tears, Beautiful People and Brides of Christ. In CLOUDBURST, she plays the blind and long-suffering Dot, who reluctantly embarks on a journey to Canada to marry her companion, Stella. About the Director ------------------ THOM FITZGERALD, DIRECTOR/WRITER Thom Fitzgerald is an award-winning writer, director and producer. Independent and always provocative, Fitzgerald's character-driven films have earned him a place amongst Canada's leading filmmakers. A native of New York City, Fitzgerald moved to Nova Scotia in the late 1980s to attend university. His accled film, The Hanging Garden, was released in 1997, garnering praise from audiences and critics alike. His most recent films include 3 Needles, starring Chloe Sevigny, Stockard Channing and Lucy Liu; The Event, starring Olympia Dukakis and Parker Posey; and, as executive producer, Growing Op and Nonsense Revolution. His feature films include The Hanging Garden (1997), Beefcake (1998), Wolf Girl (2001), The Wild Dogs (2002), The Event (2003), and 3 Needles (2005). He has also worked as a director, producer and writer on short films, documentaries, and for television. CLOUDBURST marks his third outing with O-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, who also starred in The Event and 3 Needles. Fitzgerald has won more than two dozen international awards including a Genie, the FIPRESCI European International Critics' Prize, the Emerging Master Award at the Seattle Film Festival, and the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. He is a three-time premiere guest of the Sundance Film Festival. Fitzgerald founded his independent production company, Emotion Pictures, in 1996. It has since become one of Canada's leading and most respected boutique production houses, building a reputation for character-driven movies. See more ( javascript:void(0) )

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