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Cloudburst is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Thomas Fitzgerald with Olympia Dukakis

Cloudburst (2011)

Cloudburst
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Length 1h33
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OriginCanada
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Adventure,    Romance
Rating71% 3.5896153.5896153.5896153.5896153.589615

Cloudburst is a 2011 Canadian-American adventure comedy-drama film by American-Canadian 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. The film is an adaptation of Fitzgerald's 2010 play of the same name. The film's cast also includes Kristin Booth, Ryan Doucette, John Dunsworth, and Jeremy Akerman.

Synopsis

Stella (Dukakis) and Dotty (Fricker) are a lesbian couple from Maine who embark on a Thelma and Louise-style road trip to Nova Scotia to get married after Dotty is moved into a nursing home by her granddaughter. Along the way they pick up Prentice (Doucette), a hitchhiker travelling home to Nova Scotia to visit his dying mother, and the three bond deeply as they travel.

Actors

Olympia Dukakis

(Stella)Brenda Fricker

(Dot)John Dunsworth

(Arnold)Kristin Booth

(Molly)Ryan Doucette

(Prentice)
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