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THE WIDOWS CLUB

By Trent CARLSON

Romance - Development 2017

Expat widows Ellen, Lydia, and Jude seek the services of a charming grief counsellor and discover his bizarre methods has an effect on them, revealing hard truths that threaten their thirty-year friendship. Can the Ellen and her friends let the past go and find new love and happiness in the present?

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
- Countries
- CANADA, ITALY
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 5 - 10 M$
- Director(s)
- Trent CARLSON
- Writer(s)
- Sue BOURQUE, Jason BOURQUE, Ita MARGILIT
- Producer(s)
- Trish DOLMAN (Screen Siren Pictures Inc.), Christine HAEBLER (Screen Siren Pictures Inc.), Trent CARLSON
- Synopsis
- The Widows' Club follows a group of women unable to move forward after losing their husbands in an unfortunate golfing accident.
  
  Ellen has a serious case of writer's block and won’t let her deceased husband and writing partner go. Besties Jude and Lydia drag her to a bereavement group where they meet grief counsellor Marcus, whose bizarre methodology has a strange, libidinous effect on them. Ellen denies having any feelings for him, freeing a path for Lydia to call "dibs". Torn, Ellen continues to resist his charms, but the more he triggers "her flow" and releases her writer's block, the more smitten she becomes.
  
  Finally, acting on her feelings, she unleashes a series of events revealing hard truths between the women, threatening their 30-year friendship. Ellen must learn to finally let go, find her own voice, and allow herself to be ushered into the unexpected glory of the Widows' Club.