It should have wide appeal to romance fans of all stripes. Out goes the Marianne Faithful in comes kd lang, though the film doesn't appear to be targeted at an exclusively lesbian audience. Dot, meanwhile, is seriously ailing, giving the film an urgency and a painfully serious side that Ridley Scott never seemed fully willing to engage with.
The hitchhiker may not represent the kind of sexual temptation Brad Pitt did, but there's certainly sexual tension and a whole lot of sexually explicit humour. Stella is a gleefully crude dyke who could give Malcolm Tucker a run for his money in a creative swearing contest. So far, so Thelma And Louise, but this film pulls fewer punches. So they flee together in her truck, picking up charming young male hitchhiker (Ryan Doucette) along the way. When Stella realises it's possible for two women to marry in Canada, she thinks this may offer a solution to their problems, creating a legal bond that could prevent them being separated. Now Dot's granddaughter wants to put her in a care home, tricking her into signing over power of attourney. Stella (Olympia Dukakis) and Dot (Brenda Fricker) have lived together for 31 years. So it's refreshing that one of the first high-profile ones should be so distinctive, and should present a romance that's different in another way - both its protagonists are in their eighties. Three members of the original stage cast reprised their roles Ryan Doucette, Marlane OBrien, and Michael McPhee.Do you believe gay couples should be allowed to marry? If you're a filmmaker, it's a no-brainer - it opens a whole new vein of romantic comedies telling the same old story with just that little twist so they can pretend we haven't seen them before. The love story was so beautiful I couldnt say no to it. In press for the film, Fricker praised the screenplay, I was so moved by it. Fitzgerald had originally planned for the role of Dotty to be played by Joan Orenstein, but as she died while he was writing it, he cast Fricker instead.
The film version was produced by Doug Pettigrew and Fitzgerald, and executive produced by Sidney Kimmel, Vicki McCarty, William Jarblum, Trudy Pettigrew, Dana Warren and Shandi Mitchell. Fitzgerald won the Merritt Award for Outstanding New Play.Fitzgerald adapted his own stage play for the screen.
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The production was nominated for several Merritt Awards, Nova Scotias professional theatre awards, including nominations for Outstanding Production, Outstanding New Play Fitzgerald Outstanding Lead Actress Allen, Outstanding Supporting Actor Doucette, and Outstanding Set Design Fitzgerald. The successful engagement ran for five weeks and closed on May 8, 2010.
The play starred Carroll Godsman, Deborah Allen, Ryan Doucette, Marlane OBrien, Michael McPhee and Amy Reitsma. The films cast also includes Kristin Booth, Ryan Doucette, John Dunsworth, and Jeremy Akerman.Ĭloudburst debuted as a stage play on Apat Plutonium Playhouse in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The film is an adaptation of Fitzgeralds 2010 play of the same name. Produced by: Thom Fitzgerald, Doug PettigrewĬloudburst is a 2011 CanadianAmerican adventure comedydrama film by AmericanCanadian writer and director Thom Fitzgerald, starring Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker, which premiered at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia on September 16, 2011.