

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
Doris

Kathleen Chalfant
Mildred

Catherine Kellner
Young Mildred
Isa Thomas
Jenny
Jennie Moreau
Flo
Kendal Thomas
Jeffrey

Alice Playten
Alice

Daniel Martin Berkey
Evan
Jones Miller
Bar Girl

Rod McLachlan
Jim

Rainn Wilson
George
Yvonne Rainer
Yvonne Rainer
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