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Tru Love (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Tru Love' is a 2013 Canadian drama film written, directed and produced by Kate Johnston and Shauna MacDonald.[http://torontoist.com/events/event/inside-out-challenging-attitudes-and-changing-lives/ "Inside Out: Challenging Attitudes and Changing Lives"]. 'Torontoist', May 22, 2014.
Plot
Tru Richmond, 37, is a serial bed-hopping lesbian who cannot commit to a relationship or a job for long.
Restless by nature and wounded by the past, she seems to live from pillar to post, from mattress to mattress, bobbing along through life with no anchor to ground her. She gets by on her wits, her considerable good looks and charm but at her age, it is all starting to wear a little thin.
Tru meets 60-year old widow Alice Beacon, who came to town to visit her daughter Suzanne, a too-busy corporate lawyer. Suzanne, 35, is Tru's friend.
When Tru meets Alice, sparks fly and Alice and Tru begin forging an unlikely friendship. Suzanne, who has a deeply conflicted relationship with her mother and a complicated and a secret past with Tru, becomes increasingly alarmed at the growing bond between Tru and Alice.
After Suzanne witnesses an intimate moment between the two, feeling jealous and threatened, she tries to sabotage the budding romance. But it backfires.
Cast
Release and reception
'Tru Love' was distributed in Canada by IndieCan Entertainment, and internationally by Wolfe Releasing. It was released as VOD on October 7, 2014, and in DVD by Wolfe Video on November 4, 2014.[http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Disc-and-That-Upcoming-and-recent-DVDs-/49128.html "Disc and That: Upcoming and recent DVDs"]. 'Windy City Times', September 30, 2014.
The film won the Audience Award, and MacDonald and Johnston won the Emerging Artist Award, at the 2014 Inside Out Film and Video Festival. At the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015, Patric Caird and Sonya Ct were nominated for Best Original Song, for "Danse Elegant".Katie Bailey, [https://playbackonline.ca/2015/02/15/canadian-screen-awards-15-feature-film-categories/ "Canadian Screen Awards 15: Feature film categories"]. 'Playback', February 15, 2015.
See also
* List of LGBT films directed by women
References
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