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Major Motion Pictures: Out Now with Out Stars

http://outfest.blogspot.com/2008/04/major-motion-pictures-out-now-with-gay.html

Shelter producer J.D. DiSalvatore has posted on her blog some interesting thoughts on 3 current or upcoming major motion pictures featuring high profile out actors: Nim's Island (starring Jodie Foster), Harold & Kumar 2 (with NPH), Sex and the City: The Movie (with Cynthia Nixon).

Regarding Nim's Island, J.D. writes:

Jodie Foster quietly came out at a Women in Film brunch last year. CNN covered it, then that was that.

But meanwhile, she's out and she's gay and she's starring in one of the top ten films at the box office.

Foster stars as a reclusive novelist of romantic action books like, um, Kathleen Turner's role in ROMANCING THE STONE. The Michael Douglas part however is played by hunky Gerald Butler from PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and he's actually her imaginary friend, not her love interest.

Foster steals away to an island after a distress call from a young fan, Nim, played by LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE's Abigail Breslin. Nim is Foster's polar opposite, open to the world and outgoing, but they both share the magic gift of imagination. Nim has been living alone on this island with her father (also played by Butler) who has since gone missing. The two women then embark on an adventure to find him.

This is a family movie getting moderately good reviews, so if you have kids head on down to the theatre!

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