Cloudburst

2011

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Romance

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 77% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 2592 2.6K

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Plot summary

When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a hitchhiker along the way.

Director

Thom Fitzgerald Photo
Thom Fitzgerald

Top cast

John Dunsworth Photo
John Dunsworth as Arnold
Olympia Dukakis Photo
Olympia Dukakis as Stella
Jeremy Akerman Photo
Jeremy Akerman as Justice
Brenda Fricker Photo
Brenda Fricker as Dot
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858.72 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
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1.56 GB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Yellow_under_the_feet 6 / 10

One of the most sweet movie on LGBTQ I have ever seen

Cloudburst is a 2011 Canadian-American adventure comedy-drama film by American-Canadian writer and director Thom Fitzgerald. This hilarious foul-mouthed, lesbian road movie co-stars Oscar (R)- winning actresses Brenda Fricker and Olympia Dukakis as Dot and Stella, a crackerjack lesbian couple on the run from a nursing home. You'll laugh so hard you'll cry. Stella and Dot have been together for 31 years and have faithfully accompanied one another through life's ups and downs. Now in their seventies, Stella is hard of hearing and Dot is legally blind. Dotty's prudish granddaughter, Molly (played by Genie Award-winner Kristin Booth), decides the best place for Dot is a nursing home that will provide all the necessities. This forces Stella and Dot to make a bold decision: they will leave their hometown and make their way to Canada, where same-sex marriage is legal. It's a last-gap bid to stay together. En route to Canada, they pick up a young hitchhiker, Prentice, played by newcomer Ryan Doucette. A small-town boy turned modern dancer, he is returning to Nova Scotia to visit his dying mother. Despite his bravado, Prentice is a confused and wounded soul who has much to learn from Stella and Dot as they wage their own unexpected battle - after three decades, can they keep their family together? One of the most sweetest love story which will bring tears n smile in the same time.
Reviewed by brighthillsbear 8 / 10

Worth Watching but Ending Could be Better

I loved the light-hearted banter of this movie. It was sometimes a little slapstick and over the top but it made me laugh. It was refreshing to see lesbian characters who weren't in their twenties.The only criticism I have of this movie is in the ending - Dot's death seemed totally unnecessary. I half expected her to wink and say 'Just kidding'. Another reviewer thought this might be part of a tendency to make lesbian stories tragic. Personally, I interpreted it as more of a mistaken belief that stories about the elderly have to end in death. Death happens but I dislike the constant portrayal that the elderly aren't doing anything with their lives except waiting for it to end. The enjoyment the two of them got out of life gave most of the movie it's charm.I will admit, however, that it did give Olympia Dukakis' character an opportunity for a brilliant last line! Almost enough for me to forgive the way they ended it.
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