You'd never know this was his first movie. A very funny Ryan Doucette plays the hitchhiker. Brenda Fricker plays the blind, wise old woman. Olympia Dukakis plays a role you might never expect to see: a crusty old lesbian with the mouth of the saltiest sailor.
This trio then takes an unlikely road trip with a series of misadventures and adventures through the beautifully photographed landscape of eastern Canada. Along the way they pick up a young, male hitchhiker who happens to be a modern/exotic dancer from New York.
Age and a selfish granddaughter threaten to end the relationship so these two octogenarian ladies decide to run away in an old, red pickup truck through the back roads of Maine to Canada where they can be married. This movie is about two people who have loved each other and lived together for 31 years. The brief synopsis of this story is that it's about two old lesbians living in Maine who pick up a hitchhiker. Reviewed by steven-leibson 10 / 10 Destined to be one of the great movie love stories