Taglines: Sex, drag and rock’n roll.
Stage Mother Movie Storyline. Sometimes it takes a tragic event to lead a person to happiness. That’s what happens to Maybelline (Jacki Weaver), a conservative Texas church choir director who has been estranged from her son Rickey since he came out a decade earlier. When Rickey dies unexpectedly, Maybelline finds herself the unlikely inheritor of his San Francisco drag club, and the new boss to an eclectic — and anarchic — group of performers.
Even Rickey’s best friend Sienna (Lucy Liu, at her very best) thinks his mother should just go home. Despite pressure from her husband, Maybelline decides to stay in the Bay Area and turn her musical talents toward saving her son’s club from bankruptcy, and possibly alleviate the crushing guilt she feels for rejecting him years earlier. Funny and touching, director Thom Fitzgerald’s lyrical comedy-drama boasts a fiery supporting cast, including Mya Taylor (Tangerine, PSIFF 2015) and drag superstar Jackie Beat.
Stage Mother is a 2020 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Thom Fitzgerald, from a screenplay by Brad Hennig. The film stars Jacki Weaver, Lucy Liu, Adrian Grenier, Mya Taylor, Allister MacDonald, Oscar Moreno and Jackie Beat. The film had its world premiere at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 4, 2020. Shortly after, Momentum Pictures acquired distribution rights to the film, and set it for an August 21, 2020, release.
Stage Mother (2020)
Directed by: Thom Fitzgerald
Starring: Jacki Weaver, Sofia Banzhaf, Lucy Liu, Adrian Grenier, Mya Taylor, Allister MacDonald, Oscar Moreno, Jackie Beat, Lenore Zann, Anthony Skordi, Hugh Thompson, Eldon Thiele
Screenplay by: Brad Hennig
Production Design by: Michael Pierson
Cinematography by: Thomas M. Harting
Film Editing by: Yaniv Dabach
Costume Design by: James A. Worthen
Set Decoration by: Arline Vincent
Art Direction by: Jesse Stewart
Music by: Warren Robert
MPAA Rating: R for sexual content including an assault, language and some drug use.
Distributed by: Momentum Pictures
Release Date: January 4, 2020 (Palm Springs), August 21, 2020 (United States)
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