While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.
Acting
Laura Linney's unhinged mom energy is career-best work
Writing
Chinn's script finds humor in hospice waiting rooms
Direction
Debut feature with zero preciousness about death
Director
Laura Chinn
Nico Parker
Doris
Laura Linney
Kristine
Woody Harrelson
Paul
Daniella Taylor
Laci
Ella Anderson
Brittany
Amarr M. Wooten
Nate
Ariel Martin
Megan Kaminski
Keyla Monterroso Mejia
Nurse Mia
Pam Dougherty
Sue
Jason Burkey
Officer Chauncey
Andrea Powell
Security Sylvia
Parker Sack
Adam
Andrew Dicostanzo
Dirty Cody
Elliott Sancrant
Kyle
Matt Walsh
Mr. Ladd
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Laura Chinn based this on her own brother's death during the Terri Schiavo case; her family really did live in the protest zone.
The 2005 Schiavo case split America along religious and political lines—this film treats it as background noise to one family's private collapse, which is exactly the point.
US
