ANY DAY NOW

It’s a scary thought when you see a film set 30 years ago, and afterwards you look at life today and realise that not much has changed. In life you need a license to drive, fish, even to own a reptile as a pet, but any idiot can become a parent. Yet there are worthy, compassionate and willing people who, for one reason or another, are unable to have children naturally who face just as many obstacles as they ever did.

Set in late 1970s Los Angeles, a poor but happy club drag queen Rudy Donatello (Alan Cumming) is a carefree lover of life and men until a few chance meetings change his life forever. Not only does Rudy meet closeted district attorney Paul Fliger (Garret Dillahunt) at the club one night, but soon after discovers Marco (Isaac Leyva), the 14-year-old son of his drug addict neighbour, abandoned in an apartment. Although Marco is diagnosed with Down syndrome, Rudy and Paul choose to take care of him instead of turning him over to the authorities, and the couple face personal, private and judicial prejudice as they fight to keep their unorthodox yet deeply loving family together.