Any Day Now
Screening Dates:
Tue 17 September 8:30pm
Wed 18 September 6:15pm
Director: Travis Fine
Starring: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva
Drag artist Rudy (Cumming, Golden Eye, The Tempest) takes in Marco (Leyva), a teenager with Down’s syndrome who has been abandoned by his mother.
Perpetually broke but possessed of a fiery spirit, Rudy is also falling in love with Paul (Dillahunt, Looper), a straitlaced, closeted lawyer. Writer-director Fine’s measured, smartly scripted film follows Rudy and Paul’s burgeoning affair, and their attempt to adopt Marco despite considerable legal obstacles and homophobia.
Based on real events, this sometimes angry, often darkly amusing and ultimately moving work boasts strong performances from the three leads, as well as from Frances Fisher (The Lincoln Lawyer), Don Franklin as their feisty legal opponents, and Mindy Sterling (the Austin Powers trilogy) as their conflicted social worker.
Critic: Michael Phillips
Date: 2013-01-03
Publication: Chicago Tribune
Quote: Too much of "Any Day Now" founders in cliche and predictable table-turning and point-scoring instead of building a set of complicated characters at odds with a biased system.
Critic: Joe Williams
Date: 2012-12-20
Publication: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Quote: The growing community of gay parents deserves a better reflection of their struggles than a kitschy "Kramer vs. Kramer."
Critic: Claude Peck
Date: 2012-12-20
Publication: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Quote: Switches between a few primary modes -- agenda-mentary, romance, courtroom drama, tearjerker -- without engaging very convincingly in any of them.
Critic: John Anderson
Date: 2012-12-20
Publication: Newsday
Quote: Generally abysmal.
Critic: Stephen Whitty
Date: 2012-12-14
Publication: Newark Star-Ledger
Quote: Gets its point across, and its sad drama. And it spotlights a marvelous performance by Alan Cumming.
Critic: Farran Smith Nehme
Date: 2012-12-14
Publication: New York Post
Quote: Cumming is wonderful, and you know something? Trying a little understanding sure doesn't hurt.
Critic: Tom Long
Date: 2012-12-14
Publication: Detroit News
Quote: There's no denying the power of Cumming, Leyva and Dillahunt's performances, nor the tragedy and injustice of the situation.
Critic: Michael O'Sullivan
Date: 2012-12-14
Publication: Washington Post
Quote: The film is sometimes swamped by its own tears.
Critic: Betsy Sharkey
Date: 2012-12-13
Publication: Los Angeles Times
Quote: Cumming is the linchpin, and the actor does an exceptional job of moving across the vast galaxy of universal emotions about partners and parenthood. He takes us to the heart of the matter in ways that matter most.
Critic: Stephen Holden
Date: 2012-12-13
Publication: New York Times
Quote: An outraged, unblinking depiction of institutionalized homophobia three decades ago, when the prevailing court opinion in adoption cases was that exposing a child to a homosexual environment was harmful.
Critic: Ella Taylor
Date: 2012-12-13
Publication: NPR
Quote: It would take a heart of stone - or zero tolerance for soap - to resist Any Day Now, a full-throttle weepie about a West Hollywood gay couple trying to adopt a neglected boy with Down syndrome.
Critic: Peter Hartlaub
Date: 2012-12-13
Publication: San Francisco Chronicle
Quote: The script seems almost religiously adverse to Hallmark-style melodrama.
Critic: Joe Neumaier
Date: 2012-12-13
Publication: New York Daily News
Quote: Director Travis Fine gives his period details flourish and lets Cumming and Dillahunt create well-rounded characters, but "Any Day Now" winds up treacly.
Critic: Carrie Rickey
Date: 2012-12-13
Publication: Philadelphia Inquirer
Quote: The bare-bones script is fleshed out by Cumming and Dillahunt, who create characters that are as memorable as they are moving.
Critic: David Fear
Date: 2012-12-11
Publication: Time Out New York
Quote: The intent is righteous. The dramatic overkill is deadly.
Critic: Melissa Anderson
Date: 2012-12-11
Publication: Village Voice
Quote: Straining for "teachable moments," the film has one noteworthy, unintentional function: to remind us that though LGBT rights are continually evolving, the laws of kitsch remain immutable.
Critic: Boyd van Hoeij
Date: 2012-11-27
Publication: Variety
Quote: Acting from beneath the least flattering haircut this side of the Bee Gees, Cumming delivers what is possibly his best performance to date.
Critic: Moira MacDonald
Date: 2012-11-27
Publication: Seattle Times
Quote: Alan Cumming has never been nominated for an Oscar, but director Travis Fine's powerful, fact-based movie could be the breakthrough role that makes it happen.
Critic: Frank Scheck
Date: 2012-04-27
Publication: Hollywood Reporter
Quote: Depictions of custody battles have become a cinematic staple, but few register with the heartfelt emotion of Any Day Now.
