''Tru Love'' is a 2013 Canadian

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film written, directed and produced by Kate Johnston and Shauna MacDonald."Inside Out: Challenging Attitudes and Changing Lives"
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Plot

Tru Richmond, 37, is a serial bed-hopping lesbian who cannot commit to a relationship or a job for long. Restless by nature and wounded by the past, she seems to live from pillar to post, from mattress to mattress, bobbing along through life with no anchor to ground her. She gets by on her wits, her considerable good looks, and charm — but at her age, it is all starting to wear a little thin. Tru meets 60-year-old widow Alice Beacon, who came to town to visit her daughter Suzanne, a too-busy corporate lawyer. Suzanne, 35, is Tru's friend. When Tru meets Alice, sparks fly and Alice and Tru begin forging an unlikely friendship. Suzanne, who has a deeply conflicted relationship with her mother and a complicated and secret past with Tru, becomes increasingly alarmed at the growing bond between Tru and Alice. After Suzanne witnesses an intimate moment between the two, feeling jealous and threatened, she tries to sabotage the budding romance only for it to backfire.

Cast

Release and reception

''Tru Love'' was distributed in Canada by IndieCan Entertainment, and internationally by

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. It was released as VOD on October 7, 2014, and on

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on November 4, 2014. The film won the Audience Award, and MacDonald and Johnston won the Emerging Artist Award, at the 2014

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. At the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015,

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and Sonya Côté were nominated for

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, for "Danse Elegant".

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* * {{Rotten Tomatoes, tru_love 2013 films 2013 drama films 2013 LGBT-related films Canadian drama films Canadian LGBT-related films English-language Canadian films LGBT-related drama films Lesbian-related films 2010s English-language films 2010s Canadian films

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