Late Bloomers

Late Bloomers
  • Release date: 19 Jan 1996
  • Release year: 1996
  • Runtime: 107 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: school, basketball, high school, lesbian mother, gay parent, schoolteacher, closeted homosexual, lesbian, independent film, female nudity
Plot:
The story of two ordinary women in their mid years, who live deep in the bible belt, populated by square teachers, libidinous students and home to suburban monotony. Carly is a married woman with two kids, who works as the school secretary; Dinah is the single, lonely math teacher who coaches the girls' basketball team. Long time disinterest between the women perchance evolves in to a series of one-on-one basketball games, during which the two women grow closer physically and emotionally, until one heated game ends spontaneously in a kiss. The outcry from family, friends and the community as the relationship between these two women blooms, creates a timely story in which is woven the notion of family, of gay relationships and which raises the banner of gay marriage.
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