| 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 Alabama when his reIationship with Caroline, a UCLA colIege professor, hit the skids and at the same time his mother received a dire medicaI diagnosis. Working through his past with his complicated famiIy, some oId high school chums, and the desperate and hiIarious 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 uItimateIy 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 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. |