Any Day Now - film review

Alan Cumming stars in this true life TV-movie-ish tale about a gay couple desperate to take care of a lonely teen with Down’s syndrome
Alan Cumming
6 September 2013

A true life TV-movie-ish tale about a gay couple desperate to take care of a lonely teen with Down’s syndrome. It’s West Hollywood, 1979, and ballsy but soft-hearted drag artist Rudy (Alan Cumming) has just hooked up with handsome closeted DA Paul (Garret Dillahunt). When Rudy’s neighbour gets carted off to prison, the social services prepare to place her son Marco (Isaac Leyva) in foster care but Rudy thinks he and Paul can offer something more valuable. Cumming spends too much of the film singing and, worse, the script’s take on the “junkie mum” proves tabloid crude. Still, Dillahunt and Levya are enchanting. Look out for the Halloween home movies — they’re scarily sweet.

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