Tru Love (film)
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| Directed by | Kate Johnston, Shauna MacDonald |
| Written by | Kate Johnston, Shauna MacDonald |
| Produced by | Shauna MacDonald, Kate Johnston |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Tru Love is a 2013 Canadian drama film written, directed and produced by Kate Johnston and Shauna MacDonald.[1]
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 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 only for it to backfire.
Cast
- Kate Trotter as Alice Beacon
- Peter MacNeill as Richard
- Shauna MacDonald as Tru Richmond
- Tony Nappo as Taxi Driver
- Christine Horne as Suzanne
- Alexander Chapman as Gray
- Rachael Ancheril as Claire
- Anna Cyzon as Jaimie
Release and reception
Tru Love was distributed in Canada by IndieCan Entertainment, and internationally by Wolfe Releasing.[1] It was released as VOD on October 7, 2014, and on DVD by Wolfe Video on November 4, 2014.[2]
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 Côté were nominated for Best Original Song, for "Danse Elegant".[3]
See also
References
- ^ "Inside Out: Challenging Attitudes and Changing Lives". Torontoist, May 22, 2014.
External links
- Tru Love at IMDb
- Tru Love at Rotten Tomatoes