Hannah Free
- Sharon Gless: Hannah Free (Alt )
- Kelli Strickland: Hannah (~ 30 years)
- Casey Tutton: Hannah ( Jung)
- Maureen Gallagher: Rachel (Alt )
- Ann Hagemann: Rachel ( ~ 30 years)
- Elita Ernsteen: Rachel ( Jung)
- Taylor Miller: Marge
- Jacqui Jackson: Greta
Hannah Free is a love story from 2009 on the eponymous play by Claudia Allen about the lifelong relationship between the adventurous Hannah and the rather quiet Rachel. The title role was played by Sharon Gless, directed by Wendy Jo Carlton.
Action
Hannah and Rachel grew up together in a small town in the United States. Your love came another great obstacles in their personal environment. Hannah became an adventurous and travel-loving lesbian while Rachel is resigned to a quiet life as a housewife and mother. In time, the film jumps from her eventful life and her love told.
The Senior Hannah now lives confined to a wheelchair in a tiny room in a nursing home. Previously, she has traveled the world, but now she has to rely on outside help. In addition, their long-time friend and lover Rachel is in a neighboring room in a coma from which she will not wake up. As if not bad enough, Rachel's daughter margin forbidden her even to visit her mother. It breaks Hannah 's heart almost, that they may not adopt from her lifelong companion.
She remembers many beautiful and less beautiful experiences with Rachel, whose 30 -year-old spirit appears to her frequently. Frustrated by their existence as a " prisoner of the old people's home ," Hannah writes a diary. With the help of the young Greta, who visited Hannah in the nursing home and befriends her, Hannah Rachel can visit at night, when Marge is not sitting on her bed. It turns out that Rachel's great-granddaughter Greta is that Hannah knew only as a child. Self also lesbian, Greta is committed to Hannah and Rachel and brings her grandmother margin finally to to finally give up together with her and Hannah Rachel.
Awards (selection)
- 2009: " Philadelphia QFest " - Gay Icon ... for Sharon Gless
- 2009: " Madrid International Film Festival " and "Film Out San Diego Audience Award" - Best Actress for ... Sharon Gless