![]() Though Fitzgerald mentioned that he did not make the film to be political, he wanted to show that “the family you are born into is not always necessarily safe”. (Michael Hawrysh, 2B Magazine) Perhaps it is because the baby boomers are approaching retirement, but the question of how to take care of our aging LGBT population is a growing issue. But while the tone of Cloudburst is staunchly comedic, it deals with some pretty universal and topical issues. The film is not just laugh out loud funny, it’s pee your pants funny… the audience was in stitches from the very first scene of the film. It won the 2011 Merritt Award for Best New Play. Thom Fitzgerald ( The Hanging Garden) originally staged Cloudburst as a play in April 2010, at Plutonium Playhouse in Halifax. With equal parts humour and grace, Cloudburst explores the important themes of life, death and love through the eyes of this oddball trio. 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? A small-town boy turned modern dancer, he is returning to Nova Scotia to visit his dying mother. It is a last-gap bid to stay together.Įn route to Canada, they pick up a young hitchhiker, Prentice, played by newcomer Ryan Doucette. This forces Stella and Dot to make a bold decision: they will leave their hometown and make their way to Canada, where same-sex marriage is legal. Dotty’s prudish granddaughter, Molly (Kristin Booth), decides the best place for Dot is a nursing home that will provide all the necessities. Now in their seventies, Stella is hard of hearing and Dot is legally blind. Stella and Dot have been together for 31 years and have faithfully accompanied one another through life’s ups and downs. It stars Oscar-winning actresses Olympia Dukakis ( Moonstruck, Steel Magnolias) and Brenda Fricker ( My Left Foot, The War Bride, Alfred Nobbs) as Stella and Dot, an aging couple who escape from a nursing home in Maine and drive to Nova Scotia on a quest to be legally married. A romantic road movie written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald, Cloudburst was filmed in a variety of locations throughout Nova Scotia, including Blomidon.
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