Product Description
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Seventeen years after family matriarch Peggy tripped over G.W.’s
wooden legs in Sordid Lives, same-sex marriage equality has
barreled into Winters, Texas and not everyone is ready to accept
it. An anniversary memorial service is being planned in honor of
Peggy at the bar while the Southside Baptist Church plans an
"Anti-Equality" Rally to protest the abomination of gay marriage
and work to defend their religious freedom. The beloved cast of
colorful characters are all on a collision course for shenanigans
and fireworks on the big night. Along the way a bisexual serial
killer shows up, a drag queen country medley is performed and a
beauty-salon-versus-the-bigots battle turns getting your hair
done into the front lines of the equality battle. Friendships are
tested and families are reunited as fear and bigotry are
confronted with acceptance and understanding on the way to a
surprise wedding with (almost) everyone in attendance.
Review
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A Very Sordid Wedding offers some undeniably entertaining
moments, and its talented ensemble, clearly encouraged to pull
out all the stops, delivers their comic shtick with admirable
gusto. It s also impossible to entirely resist a film featuring
Whoopi Goldberg as a priest officiating a gay wedding while clad
in a rainbow-hued robe. --Hollywood Reporter
A Very Sordid Wedding - Much More Than A Wonderful Movie, But A
Game-Changer In LGBT Politics. --Huffington Post
You ll get a gay rights sermon with your booze and s and
Southern charm the way the good lord intended. --FilmThreat.com
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About the Director
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Del Shores has written, directed and produced successfully
across studio and independent film, network and cable television
and regional and national touring theatre. Shores' career took
off with the play Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got The Will?) in 1987,
which ran two years, winning many Los Angeles theatre awards,
including LA Weekly's Best Production and Best Writing. The play
has subsequently been produced in over 2,500 theatres worldwide.
A movie version of Daddy's Dyin' was released in 1990 by MGM
starring Beau Bridges, Tess Harper, Judge Reinhold, Keith
Carradine and Beverly D'Angelo. Shores wrote the screenplay and
executive produced the film. Sordid Lives, his fourth play,
opened in Los Angeles in 1996 and ran 13 sold-out months. The
play went on to win 14 Drama-Logue Theatre Awards, including
three for Shores for writing, directing and producing. There have
since been over 300 additional stage productions of the play. In
1999, Shores wrote and directed the film version of Sordid Lives
starring Beau Bridges, Delta Burke, Olivia Newton-John, Bonnie
Bedelia, Leslie Jordan and Beth Grant along with most of the cast
from the play. Opening in only eight theatres across the country,
the little film that could took in nearly two million dollars in
its limited release. The movie became a cult phenomenon and
became the longest running film in the history of Palm Springs
with a record ninety-six weeks. The movie won many festival
awards including Best Film at the New York Independent Film &
Video Festival, Atlanta Gay & Lesbian International Film
Festival, Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival, South
Beach Film Festival, Memphis International Film Festival and the
San Diego International Film Festival and won a total of thirteen
Audience Awards. In 2002 Twentieth Century Fox released the
DVD/Video, which has now sold over 300,000 units.
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