Girls' Night Out

In 1979, four teenagers, Gracie, Laine and Clementine, saw something strange in the night sky.  They woke hours later, with no memory of what happened. One of their friends, FanBoy, had disappeared. Forty years later, Grace is at the peak of her career as Chief Scientist at Feelrite, a global biotech company. A former colleague, Dr Anita Cheung, hands Grace a disturbing report that suggests Feelrite's new anti-ageing treatment has serious side-effects.  When Grace raises the side-effects at Feelrite's annual board meeting, she is suspended and disgraced.  She begins to manifest powers and discovers her best friend, Laine, is also experiencing a new awareness. In order to get Grace more evidence of the side-effects, Dr Anita Cheung sneaks into the Feelrite Laboratory. 

Feelrite uses its public relations machine to discredit Grace, but the plan backfires and Grace starts trending on Twitter with a group called #madscientists.  Kallie gets Percy out of her prison-like bedroom, and the girls escape for an innocent day of shopping, but Daphne wants Percy home for another youth-restoring blood transfusion, so she sends Andrew to find the girls and bring them back to the Mallard Mansion. Grace starts to worry when she can't reach Dr Anita Cheung. She and Laine head out to the Feelrite Laboratory, and discover the truth behind Fountain of Youth. Grace and Laine find a way into the Mallard Mansion to rescue Kallie. Daphne and Grace have a confrontation. 

In 1979, four teenagers, Gracie, Laine and Clementine, saw something strange in the night sky.  They woke hours later, with no memory of what happened. One of their friends, FanBoy, had disappeared. Forty years later, Grace is at the peak of her career as Chief Scientist at Feelrite, a global biotech company.  But Grace is also in the throes of menopause, her husband seems distracted, her teenage daughter treats her with distain, and she seems to be ‘invisible'.  A former colleague, Doctor Anita Chung, gives Grace a report that suggests that Feelrite's new anti-aging treatment, Fountain of Youth (FOY) has serious side-effects. When Grace mentions the potential side-effects of FOY at a board meeting, she is suspended by her boss Daphne Mallard.  As Grace is frog-marched out of the Feelrite building by Chief of Security, Andrew Ellroy, a nearby bin suddenly explodes in flames. Did Grace make that happen? 

Still smarting from her suspension from work, Grace goes on a weekly ‘date night' with her husband, Mike. He tells Grace he is leaving her.  Grace gets no sympathy from her daughter, Kallie, who blames Grace for Mike's wandering eye. Crushed by everything that has happened,  Grace sees first-hand her new powers of invisibility. Shaken and confused, Grace calls her best friend, Laine, who comes over for moral support and a few rounds of tequila shooters. Kallie visits her friend, Persephone Mallard (Percy), and witnesses Percy being sedated and hooked up to a two-way blood transfusion with her mother.   

Grace and Laine go out to a karaoke bar to relive their past as rock and roll queens. Laine witnesses Grace's powers of invisibility and thermokenisis. Laine shows Grace that she can ‘borrow' or inhabit animals. They decide to tell no one. Doctor Anita Chung sneaks into the Feelrite lab to retrieve more evidence of the side-effects of Fountain of Youth.  As Anita uploads some videos to Grace, she hears a sound coming from a closed off area of the lab and decides to investigate. 

Kallie gets Percy out of her prison-like bedroom, and the girls escape for an innocent day of fun and shopping, but Daphne wants Percy home for another youth-restoring blood transfusion, so she sends Andrew to find the girls and bring them back. Following Grace's advice, Destiny goes to the Feelrite free health clinic truck in the park. She meets Nurse Felix who runs a few tests and gives Destiny a free wearable fitness watch. Now Felix can track her.  Grace can't reach Anita by phone and begins to worry about her. She enlists the help of Laine, and the two women head out to the Feelrite laboratory - the last place where Anita was when she sent a voicemail to Grace.  Grace and Laine enter an area of the lab that is “closed for asbestos removal.' 

Grace and Laine discover what Feelrite is doing  to source the stem cells needed to make Fountain of Youth.  Andrew, Daphne's security officer, finally catches up with Kallie and Percy at Mike's apartment and brings them back to the Mallard mansion and to Daphne. 

Grace gets a text from Kallie that she and Percy have been taken to the Mallard mansion. Grace and Laine use their powers to enter the Mallard mansion. Grace turns up the heat and Laine gets up to mischief.   Grace has an unexpected reunion with an old friend. 

We catch up with Nancy Zelno, the voice actor behind Doctor Grace Rowland and Gracie.  Nancy give us some tips for playing a much younger character and what it's like to perform remotely. 

We talk with Jen Lyles, the wonderful voice actor behind Laine.  

We catch up with Matthew Moore, the voice actor behind Fenn B, Lifeform Warden for the Laniakea, the alien with a heart of gold.  Just don't ask Matthew to sing a country & western song.  

We catch up with Caitlin Stuart the voice actor who played Kallie Rowland in Girls' Night Out. 

We talk with Viv Jones, the voice actor behind the villain of Girls' Night Out, Daphne Mallard. 

We talk with Ryan Wiley, the voice actor behind the character Hayden in Girls' Night Out. 

We talk with Mimi Collins, the voice of Destiny in Girls' Night Out. 

We talk with Toni (Anthony) Sailer, the voice actor behind the hired muscle, Gunter. 

We talk with Rich Greene, the voice actor behind the character Mike Rowland in Girls' Night Out. A retired school principal, Rich has only recently taken up voice acting and is loving it. 

Mary Labrie talks with Joe Domanski about voice acting in Girls' Night Out and how he brought the character of Doctor Greggory Pendergast to life. 

I talk with Dan Egan, voice actor behind Nurse Felix, Norman and Jerry. Dan also composed the music for Girls' Night Out and consulted on the script. We talked too about the very special collaboration we have as mother and son.