Lauren Caster wrote, directed, produced, and starred in Rhythm Is a Dancer. It opened today in Los Angeles via Circle Collective. She based it on her own life: discovering her biological father in her late twenties after growing up with a lesbian mother who used a sperm donor.
The film follows Ro, a dancer whose career is fading, who goes home to meet the man whose DNA she shares for the first time. Tate Donovan plays the father. The film is 90 minutes and feels personal in the way only something autobiographical can.
For anyone who grew up in a family that doesn't look like the template. Or anyone who has ever sent a genealogy kit into a lab and waited.
Before you go: The Kids Are All Right. 2010, Lisa Cholodenko. Same donor dad question, different family, different decade.
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