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
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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
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About the Actor
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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
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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.
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