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Any Day Now

CastAlan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Gregg Henry, Jamie Anne Allman, Chris Mulkey, Don Franklin, Kelli Williams, Alan Rachins, Frances Fisher, Isaac Leyva
Year released2012
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Cross-dressed performers on stage (0:01, 0:18)

Performer Rudy Donatello tells lawyer Paul Fliger, "Don’t worry..." 
Paul: ”Are you crazy?” (0:04)

Rudy tells Larry, "... I’ll bust your face in two." 
Larry: ”You crazy faggot.” (0:12)

Paul asks Rudy, "What the hell are you doing, barging in here like a lunatic?" 
Rudy: ”If you answered your phone, I wouldn’t have to barge in here like a lunatic.” (0:13)

Rudy tells Paul, "... you secretly longed to meet the drag queen of your dreams." (0:20)

Paul tells District Attorney Wilson, referring to Rudy, "... He was upset about a custody issue." 
”Are you deposing me?” (0:28)

Rudy tells Paul, "Marco didn’t ask to be born to a junkie..." (0:33)

Paul answers Marco’s mother Marianna DeLeon, "That Rudy shall be granted temporary emergency custody..." (0:35)

Paul tells Rudy, "There’s no way the judge is gonna grant you custody..." 
”There’s no other way you’re gonna get custody...” (0:36)

Paul tells Judge Meyerson, referring to the DeLeons, "... she’s signed emergency orders granting Mr. Donatello temporary custody." 
”... Mr. Donatello found a local school that has a special education program.” (0:37)

The doctor tells Paul and Rudy, referring to Marco, "... he’s susceptible to all kinds of medical conditions..." 
”... raising a child with Down syndrome is a major commitment.” (0:39)

Rudy tells Marco, "... we can all do with a little extra luck in this crazy world." (0:45)

Paul tells Rudy, "You had temporary custody..." 
”... pardon me if I’m not in the mood...” (0:53)

Paul tells Judge Meyerson, "... we are asking that Marco be released into our custody." 
Meyerson: ”... I suggest you find another venue in which to display your histrionics.” 
Paul: ”What if we file a petition for permanent custody.” 
Paul: ”State code 143.56 prohibits you from making a determination in a permanent-custody case without a hearing.” 
Meyerson: ”You are wearing my patience thin...” (0:54)

Rudy tells the other performers, "... For us to have any chance of getting custody, I can’t be working as a drag queen." 
Performer: ”... she decided to become a wet nurse for the little retard.” 
Rudy: ”Don’t ever call my boy a retard.” (0:56)

A social worker asks Marco, referring to Paul and Rudy, "... Did they ever hit you?..." (0:58)

Lawyer Lambert asks Marco’s teacher Miss Flemming, on the witness stand, “... they were, in fact,... homosexual lovers?” 
”... a lifestyle that most people would call deviant.” 
Lambert: ”Mentally handicapped child in a gay bar...” (0:59)

Lambert tells Rudy, referring to Marianna, "His mom, who’s doing 36 months for a drug-possession charge." 
Paul tells Meyerson, ”... doesn’t deny her the right to make custodial decisions...” 
Lambert asks Rudy, ”... you did take him to a bar that was frequented by homosexuals.?” 
Rudy: ”I dressed up like The Bride of Frankenstein.” 
Lambert: ”... you have worn a dress and makeup in front of Marco.” 
”... Have you ever worn a dress and makeup in front of Marco?” 
”Did you ever once worry what effect that would have on Marco?” 
Rudy: ”... you think we’re child molesters now?...” 
Paul tells Meyerson, ”No one wants to adopt some short, fat, mentally handicapped kid...” (1:06)

Meryerson: "... they’re openly homosexual lifestyle could be assumed by the child to be normal..." (1:13)

Lawyer Lonnie Washington tells Rudy and Paul, "... they know you’ll be judged... not by the content of your character." 
”... it’s damn near impossible to get custody as a gay man.” 
”... he finds ever drug you have ever snorted.” (1:16)

Lonnie tells Paul and Rudy, "... California allows adoption by folks with a history of substance abuse and domestic violence." 
Judge Richard Resnick: ”Miss DeLeon, I received your petition for reinstatement of custody.” 
Rudy: ”She’s a junkie.” (1:21)

Lonnie tells Paul and Rudy, referring to Marianna, "... she was willing to fill out the petition for custody." (1:24)

Man and Marianna insufflate lines of cocaine from a mirror.
The man asks Marco, ”Did you hear what I said to you... retard?” (1:25)

Meyerson, Resnick, Wilson and Lambert read letters from Paul: "... newspaper article... about a mentally handicapped kid named Marco who died all alone under a bridge... He was a sweet kid and smart and funny... Chocolate doughnuts were his drug of choice..." (1:29)

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