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Award winning actress Kathleen Turner will play the lead role in "The Perfect Family," a new production from Certainty Films. The film will be the first for Certainty, which was formed in 2009 by Director Anne Renton and Executive Producer Connie Cummings. Business and life partners Cora Olson and Jennifer Dubin (Present Pictures) are "The Perfect Family" producers.
Award winning actress Kathleen Turner will play the lead role in The Perfect Family, a new production from Certainty Films.
The film will be the first for Certainty, which was formed in 2009 by Director Anne Renton and Executive Producer Connie Cummings. Business and life partners Cora Olson and Jennifer Dubin (Present Pictures) are The Perfect Family producers.
Renton, who describes the film as a low-budget, independent project, says filming will begin in May. “We are crewing up and are heading into pre-production in April,” she adds.
The comedy/drama follows a devout Catholic trying to become Catholic Woman of the Year at her church. To get the award, Eileen Cleary (Kathleen Turner) must prove that her family conforms to the image of the "perfect family" as envisioned by the church. She has worked to portray that image but her lies catch up with her when she is forced to deal with her very human family – her gay daughter who is having a baby with her life partner, her unhappily married son who has just left his wife and the painful secrets about her own marriage.
Turner, who was the smoky, sultry voice of Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for Peggy Sue Got Married. She was nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, winning Best Actress Awards for Prizzi’s Honor and Romancing the Stone, and received LA Film Critics Association Best Actress Awards for Crimes of Passion and Romancing the Stone.
Currently Turner is appearing in the play Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, about the outspoken newspaper columnist.
In 2007 Renton directed and produced the award winning short film, Love is Love, starring Jane Lynch (Glee, The L Word). The film showed a mirror view of the world where straight people are the minority and was widely shown in the Proposition 8 aftermath.
The Perfect Family is scheduled for release in 2011. You can follow production on the film’s website --www.theperfectfamily.com – where Renton will blog about the production process.
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