RUTHIE AND CONNIE: EVERY ROOM IN THE HOUSE

These are the incredibly true adventures of two girls in love. Ruthie and Connie first meet as Jewish housewives and neighborhood activists in a close-knit Brooklyn community in the late 1950s. After 15 years of close friendship, their acquaintance evolves and grows into something more, something deeper. When they leave behind their respective husbands and children in the 1970s to take up cohabiting with each other as lesbians, the scandal shakes their circle, from synagogue to kibbutz. The resulting scars take a long time to heal, and in some areas (especially the individual children who will no longer speak to them) still hurt. But a quarter of a century later Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz are going strong, remaining together in their 60s. The two grandmothers dance with each other on dates, spend the winter in Florida, march in gay-pride parades and lead transgender support groups. Now, the unambiguously lesbian duo want to take a further step; they want to get married, despite a tide of homophobia and political opinion, exemplified by a joint appearance by the ladies on a Phil Donahue episode in the 1980s. But, after 25 years (and a landmark lawsuit against the NYC Board of Education for denying benefits to homosexual partners), time is definitely on their side. The documentary climaxes with a ceremony that proves the most memorable wedding onscreen this year wasn't necessarily big, fat and Greek.