JUMP, DARLING
directed by Phil Connell
A Queer tale of Family.
Half- prepped before a dressing room mirror in the back of a bustling city gay bar, Russell, an actor turned drag queen, struggling to find his voice, is given a wrenching ultimatum. Overcome by indecision, he escapes to his grandmother’s house in the country. There he finds sardonic Margaret in steep decline. In a perfect, if precarious solution for both of them he moves in to protect her from her greatest fear the local nursing home.
DRAMA HD - 2021 - Canada - 90min
CAST Cloris Leachman, Thomas Duplessie, Linda Kash, Jayne Eastwood, Tynomi Banks
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE English
PRODUCED BY TELEFILM, LEVELFILM & Big Island Productions
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DIRECTOR
Phil is a writer, director and producer. His debut feature film JUMP, DARLING starring Thomas Duplessie and the late, legendary Cloris Leachman has played over three dozen film festivals, won multiple awards and sold in territories across four continents. His action-drama series pilot, HUBRIS+PARANOIA was a 2018 BlueCat Semi-Finalist. His geo-political feature drama, RANA PLAZA, about the 2013 factory collapse in Bangladesh, was recently named a Semi-Finalist for the 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.