Russell may steal money from her, but she knows his heart and has other priorities than what she has in her bank account. While both tend to hide their feelings from the rest of the world, together they cut to the chase with a bold directness. Her relationship with Russell provides us with the beating heart of the film. Her encounters with the town frenemy, Jeanne (a note perfect Jayne Eastwood), shows us Margaret can still throw shade better than any of the town’s queens.
Meanwhile, Margaret, who looks like she could keel over at any moment, has a head full of haunted memories and enough energy to suffer no fools. Speaking of which, season one’s Tynomi Banks shows up for a couple of scenes to sprinkle the right amount of credibility on the proceedings. Duplessie makes these scenes come alive, convincing me he could win every Lip Sync For Your Life moment on Canada’s Drag Race.
With some charmingly offbeat music selections, these sequences sidestep the usual cliché of your main character lip -yncing to yet another Mariah Carey number. This starts with Duplessie’s lead performance of a man who may seem eternally sullen, but who also has that unapologetic confidence, especially when he gets in drag and takes over at the local small town gay bar. When a family history of suicide emerges, the film’s premise of mutual healing overcoming overwhelming loneliness and sadness differentiates it from past wacky comedies that it so easily could have become. Cloris Leachman and Thomas Duplessie in Jump, Darling. Russell, a little lost and depressive himself, opts to stay and help keep Margaret at home. Frail and unable to care for herself, Margaret (Cloris Leachman), faces being put into a retirement community against her will by her daughter (deftly portrayed by Linda Kash). A stopover at his grandmother’s rural house to pick up a car she has gifted him ends up waylaying his plans.
The beauty of this film, however lies in its sobering look at suicidal ideation, unforced performances, and the presence of one very special icon in what would be her final screen performance.Īfter getting dumped by his boyfriend, Russell (Thomas Duplessie), an aspiring actor and fledgling drag queen named Fishy Falters, leaves his Toronto bubble to enroll in an acting class elsewhere. On the surface, the tale of a young gay man escaping the big city to live with his grandmother in the countryside, reeks of every fish-out-of-water story ever conceived. Connell, receives its international premiere at the 35th BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival. Jump, Darling, the feature debut of writer-director Philip J.
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