Rent Any Day Now (2012)
3.7 of 5 from 74 ratings
1h 37min
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- Synopsis:
- Los Angeles, California, 1978. When singer, Rudy Donatello (Alan Cumming) meets ambitious lawyer, Paul Fliger (Garret Dillahunt), little do they know they are about to embark on the biggest and most important journey of their lives. When Rudy's neighbour is arrested and sent to jail, the couple take in her teenage son, Marco (Isaac Leyva) and they quickly become the family that Marco has always wanted. When their alternative living arrangements are exposed, the family become subject to prejudice from everyone around them. The pair then becomes embroiled in a fight against a biased legal system to keep the child they have come to love as their own.
- Actors:
- Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher, Gregg Henry, Jamie Anne Allman, Chris Mulkey, Don Franklin, Kelli Williams, Alan Rachins, Mindy Sterling, Doug Spearman, Randy Roberts, Miracle Laurie, Michael Nouri, Jeffrey Pierce, Louis Lombardi, Clyde Kusatsu, Donna W. Scott, Joe Howard
- Directors:
- Travis Fine
- Producers:
- Kristine Fine, Travis Fine, Liam Finn, Chip Hourihan
- Writers:
- Travis Fine, George Arthur Bloom
- Studio:
- Peccadillo Pictures
- Genres:
- Drama, Lesbian & Gay
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Reviews (2) of Any Day Now
story worth watching - Any Day Now review by CP Customer
What a very well made film , great story and great acting from everyone in it. A story of a gay couple who try to adopt a young guy with a disability and have to take thier case to court. Very good story worth watching.
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Brilliant - Any Day Now review by CS
Great film, such a sad ending, bigotry won im afraid, when you could see what the right out come should have been
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Critic review
Any Day Now review by Alyse Garner - Cinema Paradiso
The start of a new relationship should to some extent be easier than the relationship itself, or thats what movies seem to believe, especially when it comes to romance films. Finding love for a gay man in 1970s California on the other hand, thats damn near impossible apparently.
Any Day Now follows Rudy (Alan Cumming) and Paul (Garret Dillahunt) as two gay men who meet at a gay bar Rudy works out. However the same weekend Rudy’s neighbour is arrested and Rudy finds himself raising her teenage son Marco (Issac Leyva), a introverted kid with Downs Syndrome, a victim of her drug abuse. With the help of Paul, Rudy sets out to find a way to keep Marco and protect him from all the wrong the world has already done to him.
It’s a fresh idea for a story and director Travis Fine understands this so don’t expect a conventional ending here, it’s a film set squarely in reality, it holds no punches and it often surprises but it also finds great joy in little moments such as a bedtime story, a first kiss and the simple pleasure of sitting down for a meal together.
Thats not to say everything about the film works, its an incredibly sanctimonious film that struggles through its condescending first act. While the film tries to make Rudy and Paul’s first encounters somewhat magical but when you have to sit through stagey dialogue about changing the world and the importance of the little guy its hard to enjoy what is supposed to be a simple love story.
The film finds its rhythm about halfway through when Marco becomes a bigger part of this duo’s lives and they start to become what can only be described as a family. It’s a moving feature with two wonderful performances at the heart of it with Dillahunt being absolutely breathtaking as a closeted, self conscious gay man.
Ultimately Any Day Now is powerful stuff worth a watch but don’t expect anything mind changing, it’s a story about life plain and simple and while the film isn’t perfect or award worthy it is content with the story it tells and watching the coming together of these three people to make as good a family as anyone else, if only the rest of the world they encounter would see that.