Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single mother at 50. Overnight, she's pushed to deal with her stuff: 63 boxes of her parent's heirlooms overwhelming her office-turned-future-baby's room, the weight her mother had begged her to lose, and the reality of being a half century older than her daughter.
Direction
Helfand turns her own dumpster fire into transcendent cinema.
Writing
Wit so Jewish it should come with a side of brisket.
Director
Judith Helfand
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Helfand previously survived toxic exposure from her parents' home—this film completes her accidental trilogy on domestic danger.
The film belongs to a wave of 'boomerang eldercare' documentaries where Gen X daughters become parents to parents AND children simultaneously.
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