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Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Michael Shannon, Steve Carell and Josh Charles star in this film based on the Oscar®-winning short documentary and adapted by the writer of Philadelphia. The true love story of Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree and their fight for justice. A decorated New Jersey police detective, Laurel is diagnosed with cancer and wants to leave her hard earned pension to her domestic partner, Stacie. However the county officials, Freeholders, conspire to prevent Laurel from doing this. Hard-nosed detective Dane Wells, and activist Steven Goldstein, unite in Laurel and Stacie’s defence, rallying police officers and ordinary citizens to support their struggle for equality.
Peter Sollett (New York, 1976) studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. There, he made the medium-length film Five Feet High and Rising as a graduation project in 1998 with Eva Vives, winning awards at Sundance, Cannes and South by Southwest, among others. Two years later, he made Raising Victor Vargas, a film that continued the story of the two people in Five Feet High and Rising, and which landed nominations for accolades at the Viennale, San Sebastian and the Independent Spirit Awards.
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