Reviewed by lasttimeisaw 7 / 10 CLOUDBURST is a massive crowd-pleaser in terms of its boutique license Together, these three opposites share some dynamic adventures, and it ultimately is both bittersweet and funny, but never short of being amusingly human.
He's on his way home to see Hus dying mother and seems to be carrying his own secrets. It is a triumph of determination that gets these two women through their ordeal, with Ryan Doucette in fine support as the surrogate son they find along the way. Call this a gay "On Golden Pond" as seen through the eyes of Miss Apley, the old lesbian next door to Ethel and Norman Thayer. Underneath her masculine exterior, Stella actually beats a heart of gold even though she can be at times very brusk.ĭelightfully non-politically correct, it is also extremely romantic in the sense of what Dukakis strives to achieve. Fricker is the more gentle of the two, but equally tough underneath her grandmotherly demeanor. Certainly, some people will take offense to what she says, but Dukakis refuses to betray who this broad is. "If that skirt was any shorter, you'd need another hairnet" is perhaps the mildest comment Dukakis says, shocking a very Christian Canadian who picks her up hitchhiking. "You're barking up the wrong fire hydrant", Dukakis tells him as he shows off his goods. Practically beating up Fricker's uptight granddaughter and the local sheriff, Dukakis sneaks Fricker out and heads up to Canada, and like Thelma and Louise, they pick up a hunky hitchhiker, but there's no hanky or panky going on. Now, she's Stella, a no-nonsense self confessed dyke who is determined to hold onto the love of her life, and she will do all she can to marry her.Ī tickling game results in her lover Brenda Fricker being sent to a convalescent home.
Playing a transsexual apartment owner who left new tenants home made joints, the mother of a transsexual lesbian and the seller of tickets at the "Let's take a wack at Ouiser" booth was already a respected stage actress when she struck gold as Cher's mother. The irrepressible Olympia Dukakis has really broken ground in her relatively short time as an Oscar winning celebrity.
Reviewed by mark.waltz 9 / 10 This Stella doesn't need to get her groove back.
(We just saw this movie in San Jose, CA as part of the Camera Cinema Club.) Not to worry, it appears on DVD in July, 2013 so you can see it as the author intended: sweet, salty, and well done. In the US, the Lifetime cable channel purchased it, so the language is not likely to survive un-bleeped. The movie has already played in theaters in every country but the US. This movie places everything you expect from a romantic comedy/drama and pours it into new vessels not previously used to hold this vintage. You'd never know this was his first movie. A very funny Ryan Doucette plays the hitchhiker. Brenda Fricker plays the blind, wise old woman. Olympia Dukakis plays a role you might never expect to see: a crusty old lesbian with the mouth of the saltiest sailor.
This trio then takes an unlikely road trip with a series of misadventures and adventures through the beautifully photographed landscape of eastern Canada. Along the way they pick up a young, male hitchhiker who happens to be a modern/exotic dancer from New York. Age and a selfish granddaughter threaten to end the relationship so these two octogenarian ladies decide to run away in an old, red pickup truck through the back roads of Maine to Canada where they can be married. This movie is about two people who have loved each other and lived together for 31 years. The brief synopsis of this story is that it's about two old lesbians living in Maine who pick up a hitchhiker. Reviewed by steven-leibson 10 / 10 Destined to be one of the great movie love stories