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Suzanne d’Corsey

Love. legal connections, and defining families

Two films explore the complications of same-sex relationships, past and present

When a new Scottish actor appeared on the scene many years ago, I took note. This was no Sean Connery or Ewan McGregor, but a strange creature, mercurial in the extreme.

I watched Alan Cumming through the years, in films and television, in everything from Julie Taymor's Titus to the current CBS production of The Good Wife. He just finished the National Theatre of Scotland's one-man show of Macbeth, and his face is now familiar to countless Americans as host of PBS's Masterpiece Mystery.

Alan Cumming will grace the big screen in the Brattleboro Film Festival in a quieter indie movie, Any Day Now. For his role in the film, he has just received Best Actor Award both at Outfest in Los Angeles and at the Seattle International Film Festival. The movie has picked up audience awards at every festival where it has been shown.

Any Day Now, directed and co-written by Travis Fine, can be summed up as a drama about a gay couple fighting to adopt a Down Syndrome–afflicted teen in 1979 Los Angeles.

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