Riz (Geetanjali Thapa) is a young queer woman who has left behind a life of poverty and crime in India to start over as a hard-working, live-in maid in a dumpy motel in America. Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, James Corden, Kerry Washington, Keegan-Michael Key, and Murphy fave Andrew Rannells star in the story about a group of former musical-theater heavyweights who stage a comeback by rallying behind lesbian student Emma ( Jo Ellen Pellman), a high schooler who wants to go to her prom with her girlfriend Alyssa ( Ariana DeBose), the daughter of the school’s Parent Teacher Association chief.
Ryan Murphy’s other upcoming movie adaptation of a Broadway show is The Prom, a musical boasting an even bigger star-studded cast ready to descend upon Netflix. release before PBS airs it as part of the American Masters series. Zeitgeist Films, in association with Kino Lorber, will give the movie a limited U.S.
He was also a recovering drug addict and a deeply closeted gay man who didn’t publicly address his sexuality until he wrote his 2015 memoir, On the Move: A Life. Sacks had many professions: He was a neurologist, a professor, a science historian, an author, and (in his younger days) a champion bodybuilder. This Ric Burns–directed documentary is a comprehensive biography of British intellectual Oliver Sacks, who died in 2015. The movie will make its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Laverne Cox, Mj Rodriguez, Chaz Bono, and Strong Island director Yance Ford give interviews in what amounts to an examination of how to rectify the prejudices and misconceptions surrounding trans people on screen. Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screenįeaturing more than 100 years of footage, Sam Feder and Amy Scholder’s documentary explores the history of transgender people and cross-dressers as portrayed in movies and on television. Oscilloscope is planning a theatrical release in select U.S. The feature-film debut of writer-director Lara Jean Gallagher, Clementine had its world premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.
As they inch toward seducing each other, Lana’s mind games make Karen question who’s really in control. While staying in the empty house, she meets a mysterious teenager, Lana ( Euphoria’s Sydney Sweeney), who lives nearby. Her next move? To break into her ex’s remote Oregon lake house to get their old dog, which Karen thinks she should have. In this emotionally tense drama, Karen (Otmara Marrero) is a 29-year-old reeling from a bitter split from her older, affluent ex-girlfriend.
Property of Clementine Movie LLC Clementine The cast members from the 2018 play-including Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Andrew Rannells, Charlie Carver, Brian Hutchison, Michael Benjamin Washington, Robin de Jesús, and Tuc Watkins-have reunited for the drama, about a group of gay friends who gather for a birthday party-and proceed to dish out the bitchery. The Boys in the BandĪcclaimed producers Ryan Murphy and David Stone have teamed up again with director Joe Mantello to adapt their Tony-winning Broadway revival of The Boys in the Band into a Netflix movie. Written and directed by Francis Lee, Ammonite is inspired by real events and will have a select run in arthouse cinemas. Her life changes when rich visitor Roderick Murchison (James McArdle) asks her to look after his wife, Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan), and the two women end up falling for each other. In 1840s England, fossil hunter Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) is living by the sea and selling her discoveries to tourists to support herself and her ailing mother.