A high school senior must choose between enrolling at the college of her dreams and remaining at home to take care of her bipolar mother.
Acting
Taryn Manning's manic energy is uncomfortably real
Direction
Valerie Weiss lets silence do the heavy lifting
Writing
Bipolar portrayal that avoids Oscar-bait melodrama
Director
Valerie Weiss
Madison Davenport
Beth
Kurt Fuller
Dr. Rutter
Nora Dunn
Dr. Krolly
Taryn Manning
Gloria Gerringson
Agneeta Thacker
Amy Wally
DuShon Monique Brown
Cindy
Elvis Thao
Delivery Man
Brian King
Paul
Kali Hawk
Julie
Maddie Hasson
Daschulla
Carter Jenkins
Jeremy
Addy Stafford
Amy Bennington
Phillip Edward Van Lear
Joe
Mike McNamara
Steve
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Valerie Weiss has a PhD in biophysics from Harvard and pivoted to filmmaking—making her uniquely qualified to capture the pressure of impossible choices.
The film quietly joins a rare canon of honest bipolar portrayals alongside 'Silver Linings Playbook' and 'Infinitely Polar Bear'—but from the daughter's exhausted perspective, not the parent's redemptive arc.
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