Starring Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker, Ryan Doucette and Kristin Booth
U.S./Canada, 2011
An elderly lesbian couple is split up when one of them is put in a retirement home against her will be her daughter. Thus follows a “prison” break and road trip to Nova Scotia, where the couple plans to get married. On the way they pick up a young male hitchhiker and form an unexpected bond with him.
This was another nice surprise. Olympia Dukakis steals the show as the crankier of the two elderly lovers, but the rest of the cast is great as well in an emotional (and funny) road trip filled with beautiful scenery and locations we don’t normally get to see explored on film. We also get to hang out with characters we don’t normally get to see on film, in combinations we normally don’t see – here’s a relationship between a young man and two elderly women that doesn’t involve romance and doesn’t involve blood relations, but is a straight up friendship. I guess the power of friendship in general sometimes gets short shrift in movies.
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