By Matthew Reddin
October 17, 2012
ThirdCoast Digest
Even if Cloudburst had nothing else going for it, I would still love it for being the only movie I know of where Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis curses like the hypothetical child of a sailor and a truck driver.
Better still, then, that there’s more to the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival’s opening night show than a potty mouth. While it may not hit every target it shoots for, Cloudburst is a charming adventure that keeps you hooked from start to finish.
The two women at the heart of Cloudburst are Stella (Dukakis), a spitfire with the aforementioned mouth, and her partner of 31 years, Dot (Brenda Fricker), a slightly sweeter and calmer counterweight. Both are older than they like to admit, which becomes alarmingly apparent when the already-near-blind Dot falls out of bed and ends up in the hospital.
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