They say friendship can be found in the most unlikely of places, and in A Friend of Dorothy, written and directed by actor Lee Knight , two opposites certainly attract. The film follows Dorothy ( Miriam Margolyes ), an elderly single woman whose health is on the decline, as she begins a friendship with a high schooler, JJ ( Alistair Nwachukwu ), after his football lands in her garden. As the pair strike up conversation, their connection deepens to the point of adding each other to their daily routines; JJ helps Dorothy with difficult house chores such as opening stubborn jars and Dorothy liberates JJ from the burden of imposed gender and sexuality norms in addition to encouraging him to follow his dreams to be a theatre actor through their shared love of reciting and reading stage

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