Late Bloomers
Director: | Julia Dyer |
Writer: | Gretchen Dyer |
Director of Photography: | Bill Schwarz |
Editors: | Julia Dyer and Gretchen Dyer |
Music: | Ted Pine |
Production Designer: | Mike Dempsey |
Producers: | Gretchen Dyer, Julia Dyer and Stephen Dyer |
Strand Releasing; NR; 104 minutes | |
Release: | 7/97 |
Cast: | Connie Nelson, Dee Hennigan, Gary Carter, Lisa Peterson and Esteban Powell |
Issues abound in this coming-of-age story about two women who find love just as life was about to pass them by. Unfortunately talk-show hysteria surrounds the serious probing. Set in a small Southern town that has the high school as its epicenter, Late Bloomers follows the blossoming relationship of the school's secretary, Carly Lumpkin (Hennigan), and the geometry teacher/basketball coach, Dinah Groshardt (Nelson). Carly leaves her husband and two children to move in with Dinah. Both women are fired after a boisterous PTA meeting at which Bible-waving parents rant and rave about how their children will be contaminated by the lesbians. Carly's 16-year-old daughter Val (Peterson) takes the situation the hardest, with taunts at school and abandonment by her boyfriend.