Compelling drama about the relationship between two Americans: a wounded Iraqi War veteran who struggles to live with his psychological scars, and a young filmmaker who accompanies him to a cabin in the Catskills to document his story.
Acting
Dash Mihok's trembling, wounded volatility—career-best work.
Direction
Brown blurs documentary and fiction until you can't trust either.
Director
Alan Brown
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Spencer Treat Clark had just played young Bruce Willis in 'Unbreakable' six years prior; this was his deliberate pivot to adult indie credibility.
Released at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival when Iraq War films were commercially toxic—'Superheroes' deliberately shrank the epic to two bodies in a room, predicting how indie cinema would process national trauma.
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