A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.
Acting
Dan Byrd's cringe-perfect collapse into self-destruction.
Writing
Cancer lie spirals with surgical precision toward disaster.
Director
Jonathan Segal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Richard Jenkins filmed his role during a break from 'Let Me In' — he plays dying men in both, but here his silence devastates more than any dialogue.
The film premiered at Tribeca but barely scraped distribution, becoming a secret weapon for 'you've never heard of this' film bros ever since.
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