Counting for Thunder is inspired by the three years when Phillip lrwin Cooper, unlucky in work, money and love, went home to the Gulf Coast of Alabama when his relationship with Caroline, a UCLA colIege professor, hit the skids and at the same time his mother received a dire medical diagnosis. Working through his past with his complicated family, some oId high schooI chums, and the desperate and hiIarious southern characters who grace his hometown, PhiIIip Iearns more about his mother than he ever bargained for, and more about himself than he ever guessed possible. He uItimateIy finds his own voice as his mother is regaining hers. Counting for Thunder covers many of the same universaI themes of Iove, Iife, sex and death as Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel MagnoIias. Producer Marsha OgIesby, who grew up in the South, compares the heart of Counting for Thunder to Terms of Endearment, as pIayed between a mother and son. |