The film Any Day Now, starring Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt, was one of the winners of the Chicago International Film Festival’s Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature.
Any Day Now’s plot revolves around an abandoned mentally handicapped teenager who a gay couple—a drag performer (Cumming) and a closeted attorney (Dillahunt)—take in. However, once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight a biased legal system to adopt the child.
The other winner in the narrative department was Quartet, directed by Dustin Hoffman.
The Central Park Five was the documentary winner. The film looks at the five Black and Latino teenagers who were arrested in 1989 and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park. Each spent between six and 13 years in prison before the actual criminal’s confession led to their exonerations.
The festival ran Oct. 11-25.