Soft Fruit

Alternately vulgar and tender, this Australian tear-jerker finds more humor than you'd imagine possible in the story of a dying woman getting to know her adult children. Terminally ill Patsy (Jeanie Drynan) wants nothing more than to spend her last few weeks at home, surrounded by her children — even if they do nothing but squabble. Husband Vic (Linal Haft), a bit of a bully and set in his ways, isn't wild for the idea but accedes grudgingly. One by one, the children arrive: Youngest daughter Vera (Alicia Talbot), a perpetually single nurse, envies her sisters' marriages and children. Eldest Josie (Genevieve Lemon) lives in America and never misses an opportunit...