Austin Film Festival 2010

An Ordinary Couple explores the 33-year relationship of Orin Kennedy and Bernardo Puccio. A romantic comedy, their story examines the pursuit of equality and its effect on two people who are in love and committed to one another. In 2006, unable to legally wed, the duo celebrates their love by inviting their closest friends to their funeral where a 12-foot monument representing their commitment to one another is unveiled. Orin and Bernardo’s respect and appreciation for one another is truly inspiring as the film goes in-depth, discussing their struggles growing up gay in a tumultuous America during the 1950s and 1960s, and ultimately saving each other from the threat of the AIDS virus outbreak in the 1980s by deciding to commit whole-heartedly to one another. Finally, in 2008, this ordinary couple is legally wed, and though California’s Proposition 8 threatens to break their matrimonial bond, their love for one another prevails.