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- Penned by TV writer George Arthur Bloom in the late ‘70s, it was based loosely on the real life experiences of a Brooklyn-based hairdresser named Rudy, long before the New York City borough became the gentrified hang out of hipsters that it is today.
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Any Day Now is a 2012 American drama film directed by Travis Fine, who rewrote the original screenplay that George Arthur Bloom had written 30 years previously. Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt star as a gay couple who assume guardianship of a teenage boy who has Down syndrome , only to find themselves at odds with the biological mother and ...
Dec 7, 2012 · The film is set in 1979 West Hollywood, but could just as easily have taken place in 1989 or 1999. Fine said he chose to keep the earlier time period because the original screenplay was based on a true story, and to explore “the gritty, character-driven” style of 1970s cinema.
Nov 13, 2013 · Any Day Now, a 2012 filminspired by true events, tells the story of a gay couple who is fighting to keep custody of a boy with Down syndrome in the 1970s. Rudy Donatello (Alan Cumming) is an eccentric drag performer, who one night discovers that a drug-addicted neighbor has been arrested, leaving her handicapped son, Marco (Isaac Leyva), abandoned.
Jan 7, 2013 · “Rudy [Alan Cumming] and Paul [Garret Dillahunt] take in their neighbor’s teenage son Marco, who has Down syndrome, when his neglectful mother throws him out of her apartment. Their attempt to legally adopt Marco sparks a court battle over gay rights in this powerful true story.” Sold. For one thing, I like both those actors.
Sep 6, 2013 · Any Day Now: Directed by Travis Fine. With Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher. In the 1970s, a gay couple fights a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that comes to live under their roof.
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Dec 12, 2012 · This year ends on an especially high note for LGBT film with “Any Day Now” (Music Box Films), starring out actor Alan Cumming as Rudy, a gay West Hollywood man who must deal with a prejudicial and antiquated court system as he attempts to adopt a boy with Down syndrome in 1979.
When a teenager with Down syndrome is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) takes him in and becomes the loving family he's never had.
