Jacki Weaver

Lucy Liu

Adrian Grenier

Mya Taylor

Allister MacDonald

Anthony Skordi

Oscar Moreno

Jackie Beat

Hugh Thompson

Lenore Zann

Eldon Thiele

Kris Cochrane

Kirstin Howell

Mauralea Austin

Calem MacDonald

Sofia Banzhaf

Vox Smith

Grayson Bermundo

Adrian Comeau

Murlane Carew

Garrett Baer

Tyson Thompson

Callum Dunphy

Lucus Popowich

Brian Stover

Rich Taylor

Darcy Mead

Warren Robert

Henry Russell Bergstein

Michael Pierson

Jesse Stewart

Arline Vincent

James A. Worthen

Kimmy Dewell

Steven MacLeod

Kyla Nicolle

Dayna Pace

Laurie Pace

Roxanne Rizzo

Doug Pettigrew

Kelli Morehouse

Jenn Tompkins

Valerie Biggin

Melany Mitchell

Jane Solomon

Greg Richling

Maggie Thomas

Drew McLean

Michael Cowie

Laurie Lacob

Mark Stevens

Mary Stevens

Kathryn From

Robina Riccitiello

Elizabeth Dressel

Brad Littlefield

Bob Falkenberg

Martha Falkenberg

Valeta Massey

Sheila Lane

James Milligan

Anna MacLean

Abner Michael Joseph Collette

Andrew Mortimer

Christian Munroe

Heather Harvey

Ted McInnes

Riley Turner

Gareth Roberts

Josh Denaro

Jim Rillie

Diego Medina

Denise Barrett

Victoria Rockwell

Tom Roberts

Heather Snider

D'arcy McDaid

Satchel Buck Jones

Shawn Snip

Gerald Gillis

Jess MacGillivray

Terry Daly

John Adamson

Rick Gillis

Mackenzie Garland

Will Semple

Matt Little

Jeff Hackett

Kristin Arason

Debi Jonatanson

David Maurice Gil

Ben Sutherland

Mark Todd Osborne

Yagmur Kaplan

Brian Berger

Lawrence He

Ben Zarai

Gonzalo 'Bino' Espinoza

Vivian Williams

Dante Marino

James Mezzo

Buck Snow

David Barber

Jake Akuna

Thom Fitzgerald

Brad Hennig

Anne Clements

Clay Epstein

J. Todd Harris

Amanda Homer

Cooper Vollick

Angela Baker

Yaniv Dabach

Thomas M. Harting

Comedy

Drama

Stage Mother

Branded Pictures Entertainment

Buffalo 8

Idiot Savant Pictures

Canada

CinemaSerf

Jacki Weaver is "Maybeline", a pretty conservative Texan woman who discovers that her estranged, gay, son has died of an overdose in San Francisco. Despite the protestations of her husband "Jeb" she heads off to the funeral and begins to discover just how ("Ricky"), long-term boyfriend "Nathan" (Adrian Grenier) and best friend "Sienna" (Lucy Liu) have been living their lives - and of how he and "Nathan" had been running their own drag club. Initially she faces scepticism and hostility from all but "Sienna" - who sees an opportunity for a free babysitter - particularly as it transpires that her son had no will and so everything he had now belongs to her. Her husband just wants to sell it all, but she decides to try and make a go of it; and to make friends with the folks her son loved. It's a kindly, feel-good film with a gentle, if slightly sweet, storyline peppered with some good old drag innuendo and cattiness. The songs are a bit on the cheesy side, but that doesn't really matter. Essentially, this is a film about regret and having the balls to do something about it - part of her determination to make a success of the club and of the acts is driven by guilt, but much of it is also driven by her own pent-up frustrations having been stuck in a banal marriage that had managed to suffocate much of the personality in her that her late son had managed to manifest in his own life. It's not a great film, at times the production borders on the amateur, but Liu and Weaver deliver engaging characters quite well and I rather enjoyed it.

English

Stage Mother - Official Trailer