A May Sky Picture Entertainment

Theresa is a Mother

WINNER BEST FEATURE Amsterdam Film Festival (Van Gogh Award)
WINNER BEST FEATURE Long Island International Film Expo (Jury Award)
WINNER BEST US FEATURE International Film Festival Manhattan
WINNER BEST FEATURE Orlando Film Festival
WINNER BEST FEATURE Reel Independent Film Extravaganza
WINNER BEST FEATURE Chain NYC Film Festival
WINNER BEST FEATURE Northeast Film Festival
WINNER BEST DIRECTOR Orlando Film Festival
WINNER BEST DIRECTOR Chain NYC Film Festival
WINNER BEST ACTRESS C.FRASER PRESS Reel Independent Film Extravaganza
WINNER BEST ACTRESS C. FRASER PRESS Chain NYC Film Festival
WINNER BEST SCREENPLAY NYC Independent Film Festival
WINNER BEST ACTOR RICHARD POE NYC Independent Film Festival
WINNER BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR RICHARD POE Maverick Movie Awards
WINNER BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS EDIE MCCLURG Chain NYC Film Festival
WINNER BEST ENSEMBLE Chain NYC Film Festival

Screenplay
C. FRASER PRESS
Cinematographer
ALEX KORNREICH
Editor
CHAD SMITH
Producer
DARREN PRESS
Co-Directors
C. FRASER PRESS & DARREN PRESS

Starring
EDIE MCLURG, C. FRASER PRESS, RICHARD POE, MATTHEW GUMLEY, ROBERT TURANO, ELAINE BROMKA, and SCHUYLER PRESS

Synopsis
Theresa McDermott has chased her “ideal” life as an urban-dwelling, punk(ish) singer-songwriter to the very end of its possible existence.  She is broke, options have run out and she happens to have a few kids she is raising on her own since their dad split a year ago.  Facing eviction and nowhere to go, Theresa packs up her children and what is left of her life and moves back to the small rural town, childhood home and parents she deliberately ran from a decade ago.  Her parents’ mutual misery and depressingly gloomy lives were a “downer” she felt had no place in her fun city life.  Yet from the moment Theresa drives back up her old driveway, it is clear that there have been some major changes. Her parents, armed with a plethora of hobbies, a hot tub and a new philosophy, are not exactly the old folks she left behind.  Theresa needs a job, her parents need their space and a painful family history needs some closure.  Old wounds, unattainable dreams, and some “other things” are exposed as a fractured family works to become whole and a woman with a few kids works to become a mother.

Running Time
1:42:00

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