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.

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Cast

Joanna Merlin

Doris

Kathleen Chalfant

Mildred

Catherine Kellner

Young Mildred

Alice Playten

Alice

Daniel Martin Berkey

Evan

Rod McLachlan

Jim

Rainn Wilson

George