An unlikely May/September
romance blooms in Wolfe’s Nov. 4 DVD debut of filmmakers Shauna MacDonald (who
also stars) and Kate Johnston’s award-winning romantic drama, Tru
Love.
Tru, short for Gertrude
(Shauna MacDonald — Hemlock Grove, Paradise Falls, etc.), disdains
relationships, and, for that matter long-term commitments to anything,
including anything that might resemble a career. Filmmakers MacDonald and Johnston are blunt
about Tru’s nature … “She’s a bed-hopping lesbian.” There’s no sugar-coating it. She’s a user; user of people.
Beautiful; outwardly
beautiful that is, Tru is damaged goods on the inside … alone, needy. When she meets Alice (Kate Trotter — Beyond
Borders, Upside Down) it is literally love at first sight. Her world-outlook will change as a result of
this epiphany, right? Well … there are just
a couple of little issues that might be tough to overcome.
First, Alice is old
enough to be her mother. Second, Tru’s
friend, Suzanne (Christine Horne) is Alice’s daughter (sure enough, she is old
enough to be Tru’s mother) … and Suzanne knows full-well what a
trophy-collecting “harlot” Tru is. So
seeing her widowed mother being “seduced” by her does not sit well at all.
On the surface it would
seem that Tru is bored, Alice is vulnerable and so why not have just a little
bit of fun. It is, after all, her
nature.
The surface glimmer can
be deceiving as this bittersweet May/September relationship develops in both
sweet and unexpected ways. For Tru it
is a life-shaping experience and for Alice it is so much more!
Bonus features include
deleted scenes and the short film titled Stormcloud (written and directed by
Kate Johnston).
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