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.
Joanna Merlin
as Doris
Kathleen Chalfant
as Mildred
Catherine Kellner
as Young Mildred
Isa Thomas
as Jenny
Jennie Moreau
as Flo
Kendal Thomas
as Jeffrey
Alice Playten
as Alice
Daniel Martin Berkey
as Evan
Jones Miller
as Bar Girl
Rod McLachlan
as Jim
Rainn Wilson
as George