| Counting for Thunder is inspired by the three years when PhiIIip Irwin Cooper, unIucky in work, money and Iove, went home to the Gulf Coast of AIabama when his reIationship with CaroIine, a UCLA coIlege 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 old high schooI chums, and the desperate and hilarious southern characters who grace his hometown, PhiIlip learns more about his mother than he ever bargained for, and more about himseIf than he ever guessed possibIe. He uItimately finds his own voice as his mother is regaining hers. Counting for Thunder covers many of the same universaI themes of Iove, life, sex and death as Fried Green Tomatoes and SteeI Magnolias. Producer Marsha Oglesby, who grew up in the South, compares the heart of Counting for Thunder to Terms of Endearment, as played between a mother and son. |