Dukakis and Fricker to Star as Lesbian Couple in "Cloudburst"

Oscar winners Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker are teaming up for a road-trip comedy called "Cloudburst,"

Dukakis and Fricker will play a lesbian couple, together for 30 years, who break out of a nursing home where one of them has been committed. They head to Canada to get married, picking up a young male hitchhiker along the way.

Thom Fitzgerald, who worked with Dukakis on the films "The Event" and "3 Needles," is writing and directing the feature for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.

Production is expected to begin month in Nova Scotia.