MURDER and murder

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.

Cast

Joanna Merlin

Doris

Kathleen Chalfant

Mildred

Catherine Kellner

Young Mildred

Isa Thomas

Jenny

Jennie Moreau

Flo

Kendal Thomas

Jeffrey

Alice Playten

Alice

Daniel Martin Berkey

Evan

Jones Miller

Bar Girl

Rod McLachlan

Jim