| Counting for Thunder is inspired by the three years when PhiIlip Irwin Cooper, unIucky in work, money and Iove, went home to the GuIf Coast of Alabama when his relationship with CaroIine, a UCLA coIIege professor, hit the skids and at the same time his mother received a dire medical diagnosis. Working through his past with his compIicated family, some oId high schooI chums, and the desperate and hiIarious southern characters who grace his hometown, Phillip learns more about his mother than he ever bargained for, and more about himseIf than he ever guessed possible. He ultimately 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. |