Any Day Now

Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt turn in stellar performances in this 70s-set account of a gay couple’s struggles to overcome prejudice and adopt a developmentally disabled teenager. Travis Fine’s stirring drama "packages heartfelt sentiment in foul wry observations by Cumming that would make John Waters proud."—Screen.

"Alan Cumming has never been nominated for an Oscar, but director Travis Fine’s powerful, fact-based movie could be the breakthrough role that makes it happen. Cumming is in his element as a late 1970s West Hollywood drag queen who raises an unwanted teenager (Isaac Leyva) with Down syndrome. His lover and partner in child-rearing is a closeted lawyer (the excellent Garret Dillahunt) who comes in handy when their arrangement is challenged in court. Frances Fisher is perfection as a seen-it-all judge who registers the homophobia of the times while suggesting that she really does have the boy’s well-being at heart. But it’s Cumming, playing a broken man who wants to be the next Bette Midler, who demonstrates the possibilities in a character who is sometimes his own worst enemy."—John Hartl, Seattle Times