
A film by Susan Winter

A film by Susan Winter
“…A sublimely original American comedy.”
–John Hartl, The Seattle Times at SIFF

Game show baron, Rex, enlists the reluctant help of son, Gerald, a gay performance artist, after the family matriarch runs off with a shrimp boat captain. Between comical attempts to lure her back, father and son hash out old family differences while testing recipes for Rex’s book on the history of cocktails.
Writer/Director Susan Winter’s reconciliation story is a love anthem to classic cocktail culture and Old Hollywood “cocktail comedies”. Breaking new ground in LGBT+ representation in this 1990’s film, Pousse Café’s prescient observations on class, gender, popular culture, and the archetypal struggle of father and son could have been written today.
ShadowCatcher Entertainment is excited to present the digital restoration of this dazzling, rediscovered, festival hit, created by an original voice in American, indie filmmaking.

Directed by
Susan Winter
Starring
Anthony Hamilton
Dominic Hamilton-Little
Beatrix Ost
Cinematography by
Erich Roland
“A matched pair of dandies with ultra-refined tastes and razor sharp wits, whose wry verbal sparring is some of the best heard on screen since Tracy and Hepburn…the exotic cocktails they incessantly mix and enjoy are the most beautiful seen, anywhere…”
- L. A. Outfest Film Festival
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
SUSAN WINTER
COLLECTION
The Pousse Café
LIMITED ADDITION
EVENTS
FILM & COCKTAILS
- VIRTUAL FILM & COCKTAIL EVENTS
- PRIVATE SCREENING WITH THE DIRECTOR
- HOST YOUR OWN PARTY
AND MORE
JOIN US IN CELEBRATING THIS REDISCOVERED GEM WITH FABULOUS COCKTAILS/MOCKTAILS & FRIENDS