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

Dayna Pace

Melany Mitchell

Darcy Mead

Valerie Biggin

Michael Pierson

Doug Pettigrew

Roxanne Rizzo

Steven MacLeod

Laurie Pace

Kelli Morehouse

Arline Vincent

Jenn Tompkins

Jesse Stewart

Kyla Nicolle

James A. Worthen

Henry Russell Bergstein

Jane Solomon

Rich Taylor

Warren Robert

Kimmy Dewell

Greg Richling

Maggie Thomas

Mary Stevens

Martha Falkenberg

Mark Stevens

Kathryn From

Elizabeth Dressel

Bob Falkenberg

Michael Cowie

Laurie Lacob

Robina Riccitiello

Brad Littlefield

Drew McLean

Valeta Massey

Christian Munroe

Anna MacLean

Sheila Lane

Jim Rillie

Gareth Roberts

James Milligan

Victoria Rockwell

Shawn Snip

Ted McInnes

Heather Snider

Diego Medina

Abner Michael Joseph Collette

Heather Harvey

Satchel Buck Jones

Riley Turner

Denise Barrett

Tom Roberts

Andrew Mortimer

Josh Denaro

D'arcy McDaid

Kristin Arason

Jess MacGillivray

James Mezzo

Yagmur Kaplan

Brian Berger

Dante Marino

Terry Daly

Buck Snow

Jake Akuna

Lawrence He

Mackenzie Garland

Will Semple

Debi Jonatanson

Gerald Gillis

John Adamson

Matt Little

Ben Zarai

David Maurice Gil

Gonzalo 'Bino' Espinoza

Rick Gillis

Mark Todd Osborne

David Barber

Vivian Williams

Jeff Hackett

Ben Sutherland

Thom Fitzgerald

Amanda Homer

Yaniv Dabach

Cooper Vollick

Angela Baker

Clay Epstein

Anne Clements

J. Todd Harris

Brad Hennig

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