STAGE MOTHER (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom), Lucy Liu (Charlie’s Angels), Adrian Grenier (Entourage), Lenore Zann (Change of Heart), Anthony Skordi (Going Bongo), Mya Taylor (Tangerine), Allister MacDonald (Splinters), Oscar Moreno (April in Autumn), Eldon Thiele (Entropic), Hugh Thompson (Whole New Thing), Sofia Banzhaf (Closet Monster)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Thom Fitzgerald (Cloudburst), director; Brad Hennig (The Hot Flashes), writer, producer; Anne Clements (Echo Park LA), J. Todd Harris (Bottle Shock), Doug Pettigrew (Splinters), producers; Warren Robert (Cloudburst), composer; Thomas M. Harting (3 Needles), cinematographer; Yaniv Dabach (Grantham & Rose), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Maybelline (Weaver), a conservative church-choir director from Texas, is shocked to learn that her recently deceased son has left her his drag club in San Francisco, which is about to go bankrupt. To the surprise of her closed-minded community, she decides to head to the city and save the club from foreclosure, learning to open herself up to the club’s flamboyant performers and find a new meaning in her life…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Full of fun, laughs and eye-catching clothing, Stage Mother is the crowd-pleasing comedy-drama that we desperately need in our lives right now.

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FRIDAY 24TH JULY 2020

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