Deeply felt and pointedly political, Any Day Now makes a case for gay adoption that’s hard to argue against, painting a portrait of a loving, though not infallible, family of an unlikely trio of misfits who make a home together. Though set in 1979 West Hollywood, its themes echo loudly in today’s courtrooms as well through compelling characters and an unrelenting narrative.
Drag queen Rudy (Alan Cumming) may be fabulous on stage, but he’s a hot mess at home, living in a dump of an apartment and making calls from the pay phone on the street because he can’t afford his own line. Flaunting a Queens accent, he masks his loneliness with flamboyance, hurt feelings with passionate outbursts—he’s utterly charming and bottomlessly kind if not always practical. In a masterfully layered performance, Scotsman Cumming, who currently plays a hard-line campaign manager in TV’s The Good Wife, is the fragile heart of the story.
Rudy catches the eye of tentative, closeted D.A. Paul (Garret Dillahunt), and their relationship probably would have ended as quickly and unceremoniously as it started were it not for Marco (newcomer Isaac Leyva), a kid with Down syndrome who lives next-door to Rudy with his junkie mother. As Marco, Leyva is a real find, sweet and adorable and moving in his quiet yet profound happiness.