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Stage Mother
Sex, drag and rock & roll
A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.
- Original title
- Stage Mother
- Language
- EN
- Country
- CA,US
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Mar 27, 2022 · via TMDB
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.
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Jacki Weaver
Maybelline Metcalf
Lucy Liu
Sienna
Adrian Grenier
Nathan
Mya Taylor
Cherry
Anthony Skordi
August
Oscar Moreno
Tequila
Jackie Beat
Dusty Muffin
Hugh Thompson
Jeb
Lenore Zann
Bevette
Eldon Thiele
Rickey
Mauralea Austin
Imogene
Calem MacDonald
Concierge Brody
Sofia Banzhaf
Young Maybelline
Vox Smith
Young Rickey
Callum Dunphy
Chappy
Kyla Nicolle
Makeup Artist
Thom Fitzgerald
Director
Robina Riccitiello
Co-Executive Producer
Thom Fitzgerald
Executive Producer
Jim Rillie
Sound Mixer
David Barber
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Yagmur Kaplan
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