Freeheld

Julianne Moore had a banner year in 2014, scooping up Best Actress honors in Cannes for Maps to the Stars before finally breaking her Oscar duck for a moving turn in Still Alice. Perhaps she ll keep the hot streak going with this true life story (based on an Oscar winning doc short from 2007) of a cancer stricken New Jersey police detective fighting to secure pension benefits for her domestic partner a potentially punchy role for Ellen Page. Screenwriter Ron Nyswaner knows his way around LGBT themed drama, having penned Soldier s Girl and Philadelphia.