Julie Thaxter-Gourlay

Financed almost entirely by poker winnings, this comedy depicts the inner workings of a weekly South LA home game and the friendships that may or may not be broken at the table.

Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Film explores the pleasures and uncertainties of later-life emotional attachment and lesbian identity in a culture that glorifies youth and heterosexual romance.