Imagine Thelma and Louise had lived happily ever after and matured into a loving lesbian couple who take no nonsense from anyone. Then you would have feisty Stella (Olympia Dukakis) and her beloved Dot (Brenda Fricker). In Thom Fitzgerald's award-winning delight Cloudburst, they have been together for over 30 years when Dot falls ill and her granddaughter dispatches her to a care facility. Stella is not about to let that happen and so steals her away in the middle of the night for a road trip to Nova Scotia where they can marry. Along the way, they encounter handsome hitchhiker Prentice (Ryan Doucette) in a film that expertly blends tender-hearted romance and uproarious comedy and gives Olympia Dukakis one of the best roles of her career. Part of Glasgow Film Festival 2012: It's a Wonderful World.

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