An adult woman puts herself up for adoption and forms a bond with the misanthropic patriarch of her adoptive family.
Acting
Jena Malone's fragile, fearless vulnerability.
Direction
Cahill's gentle hand with genuinely bizarre premise.
Writing
Dialogue that embraces emotional awkwardness fully.
Director
Mike Cahill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cahill shot this during COVID with a skeleton crew, explaining the sparse, intimate scale that actually serves the story's isolation.
The film quietly interrogates American individualism through its absurd premise: what if chosen family required literal paperwork?
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