Olympia Dukakis toplining 'Cloudburst'

June 30, 2009 Veteran actresses and fellow Oscar winners Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker are teaming up for a road trip comedy "Cloudburst," which Thom Fitzgerald is writing and directing for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. Dukakis and Fricker will play a couple, together for 30 years, who break out of a nursing home and head to Canada to get married, picking up a young, male hitchhiker along the way. Fitzgerald, repped by Covington International and Green Light Artist Management, most recently produced and directed "The Gospel According to the Blues" for Canadian television.

Subscribe to the Hollywood Reporter and see the entertainment industry from its best angle: the inside looking out. Complete access to real-time news and exclusive analysis that goes behind the scenes from film to television, home video to digital media.

   Subscribe now.