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Any Day Now (2012)

Any Day Now poster
Directed by
Travis Fine
Genre
drama film, LGBTQ-related film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
R
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 106 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A gay couple in 1970s California takes in a teenage boy with Down syndrome who was abandoned by his mother. They fight to become his legal guardians while facing discrimination from the legal system.

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What happens

Any Day Now is a 2012 American drama film directed by Travis Fine, who rewrote the original screenplay that George Arthur Bloom had written 30 years previously. Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt star as a gay couple who assume guardianship of a teenage boy who has Down syndrome, only to find themselves at odds with the biological mother and California's family law courts. The film premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, where Music Box Films acquired distribution. It received a limited theatrical release on December 14, 2012, to positive reviews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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