Trailer for The Perfect Family
Trailer for The Perfect Family
Kathleen Turner didn't fare so well on Broadway this week when the addiction play High announced it would close days after its opening. She's got another project premiering at the film festival further downtown. In The Perfect Family, Turner stars as a meddling matriarch and devout Catholic whose nomination for a church award makes her more determined to rein in her husband and two grown children into her image of what the perfect family should look like. The film also stars Emily Deschanel, Jason Ritter, Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Lawrence, Elizabeth Pena and Michael McGrady. Anne Renton makes her feature directing debut on a script written by Claire V. Riley and Paula Goldberg. The film gets its debut screening April 24.
Click to viewLesbian Storyline In “The Perfect Family” Premieres at Tribeca Film Festival
Among the films making their world premiere is The Perfect Family, co-written by Paula Goldberg and Claire V. Riley and directed by Anne Renton. You might recognize Paula for screenwriting the supercute lesbian romantic comedy Out at the Wedding, starring Cathy DeBuono, . [FYI, Julie Goldman and Jill Bennett also make cameos, so you should probs watch that online today.] Anyway, The Perfect Family is a dramedy revolving around a devoutly Catholic wife and mother (played by Kathleen Turner) who has been nominated for “Catholic Woman of the Year.” Emily Deschanel plays her daughter, a successful lawyer who is five months pregnant and about to marry her girlfriend played by Angelique Cabral. As Deschanel’s character struggles to come out to her mom, the son (Jason Ritter) has just left his wife for an older woman while her husband is a recovering alcoholic. Through all this, Turner goes about trying to prove she has the “perfect” family for the board’s final approval.
The Perfect Family will play four times over the next week [April 24, 26, 27 and 29] in hopes of finding a distributor and theatrical release: Find tickets and showtimes for The Perfect Family
Source: Autostraddle
(I'm going to the premiere, this weekend, in NYC! So excited!)