Dukakis, Fricker to star in "Cloudburst"

Actress Olympia Dukakis arrives at the New York premiere of ''The Night Listener'' at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City August 1, 2006.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Veteran actresses and fellow Oscar winners Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker are teaming up for a road-trip comedy, "Cloudburst."

Dukakis and Fricker will play a couple, together for 30 years, who break out of a nursing home and 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.