The Dec. 14 release, a dramedy based on a true story, is set in 1979 Los Angeles and revolves around a gay couple who wish to adopt a child with special needs.
The Hollywood Reporter is pleased to exclusively début the first theatrical poster for Travis Fine's Any Day Now, which Music Box Films -- the small distributor best known for handling the American release of the Swedish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo films -- will put into limited release on Dec. 14 and then push for Golden Globe nominations in the musical/comedy categories.
The film, a dramedy based on a true story, is set in 1979 Los Angeles. It revolves around a gay couple -- one member of which is flamboyant and comfortable in his skin (Tony winner and two-time Emmy nominee Alan Cumming of The Good Wife) and the other whom is still semi-closeted and not (Garret Dillahunt of Raising Hope) -- who wish to adopt a boy with Down Syndrome (newcomer Isaac Leyva) who has been abandoned by his drug-addicted mother.
The film premièred back in April at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the audience award. It subsequently picked up other audience awards at the Provincetown, Woodstock, and LA Outfest fests. Cumming's performance has attracted especially strong notices.
Source (including image): The Hollywood Reporter
Alan Cumming film wins CIFF award
The film Any Day Now, starring Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt, was one of the winners of the Chicago International Film Festival's Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature. Any Day Now's plot revolves around an abandoned mentally handicapped teenager who a gay couple—a drag performer (Cumming) and a closeted attorney (Dillahunt)—take in. However, once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight a biased legal system to adopt the child.
The other winner in the narrative department was Quartet, directed by Dustin Hoffman [starring Billy Connolly].
The Central Park Five was the documentary winner. The film looks at the five Black and Latino teenagers who were arrested in 1989 and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. Each spent between six and 13 years in prison before the actual criminal's confession led to their exonerations.
The festival ran Oct. 11-25.
Source: Windy City Media Group
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