Fruit Fly musical/dance John Garfield and Ida Lupino

John Garfield and Ida Lupino star in the big-screen adaptation of Irwin Shaws play "The Gentle People

a father in crisis

just as she teeters on the brink of a nervous breakdown

who has written an opera in which the highwayman is the hero

and a high-stakes pasta heist

Fruit Fly musical/dance John Garfield and Ida LupinoAn artist workshops her latest piece in San Francisco while looking for her biological mother. In the process, she finds chosen family, clues of her mother's whereabouts, and the possibility that she just might be a fruit fly. Praised by Filmmaker Magazine for its "loud and proud textbook guerilla filmmaking", Fruit Fly was listed in the LA Times "Asian American Canon" and has been a staple of Asian American and Queer cinema during the months of Pride