Recently widowed Dawn experiences growing anxiety as her daughter Melanie plans to move away for college. An altercation with a hostile new neighbor aggravates Dawn’s mental condition and she begins to show signs of paranoid delusions. Melanie attempts a series of interventions to help her mom, but Dawn’s paranoia spirals out of control.Challenging Dawn’s reality of persecution threatens to destroy their loving relationship.Melanie is forced to make the toughest of choices as she struggles to keep her mother a float. A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.
- Runtime109 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereEast Coast Premiere
- DirectorInon Shampanier
- ScreenwriterNatalie Shampanier, Inon Shampanier
- ProducerAnne Clements, Ash Christian
- Executive ProducerBarry Shy
- CastLili Taylor as “Dawn”, Stefania LaVie Owen as “Melanie”, Peyton List as “Lacy”, David Rasche as “Bill”, Max Casella as “Gary”, Michael Cyril Creighton as “Mr. Wessler”, Ian Nelson as “Daniel”, Tom Papa as “Howard”
- CinematographerZach Kuperstein
- EditorJoe Murphy
- Production DesignBryan Wolcik
- MusicAriel Blumentha
Recently widowed Dawn experiences growing anxiety as her daughter Melanie plans to move away for college. An altercation with a hostile new neighbor aggravates Dawn’s mental condition and she begins to show signs of paranoid delusions. Melanie attempts a series of interventions to help her mom, but Dawn’s paranoia spirals out of control.Challenging Dawn’s reality of persecution threatens to destroy their loving relationship.Melanie is forced to make the toughest of choices as she struggles to keep her mother a float. A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.
- Runtime109 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- PremiereEast Coast Premiere
- DirectorInon Shampanier
- ScreenwriterNatalie Shampanier, Inon Shampanier
- ProducerAnne Clements, Ash Christian
- Executive ProducerBarry Shy
- CastLili Taylor as “Dawn”, Stefania LaVie Owen as “Melanie”, Peyton List as “Lacy”, David Rasche as “Bill”, Max Casella as “Gary”, Michael Cyril Creighton as “Mr. Wessler”, Ian Nelson as “Daniel”, Tom Papa as “Howard”
- CinematographerZach Kuperstein
- EditorJoe Murphy
- Production DesignBryan Wolcik
- MusicAriel Blumentha