Paper Spiders
A sensitive, bittersweet tale of mental illness' impact.
Paper Spiders
Dawn recently lost her husband, and experiences growing anxiety as her daughter Melanie plans to move away for college. An altercation with a hostile new neighbor aggravates Dawn’s mental condition, and she begins to show signs of paranoid delusions. Determined to help her mom, Melanie attempts a series of interventions, but challenging Dawn’s reality of persecution threatens to destroy their loving relationship. Melanie is forced to make the toughest of choices as she struggles to support her mother on the path toward recovery and healing. A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.
Genre
Drama,
Comedy
Web Site
Runtime
110
Language
English
Director
Inon Shampanier
Producer
Anne Clements,
Ash Christian
Writer(s)
Natalie Shampanier,
Inon Shampanier
Cast
Lili Taylor,
Stefania LaVie Owen,
Ian Nelson,
Peyton List,
Max Casella,
David Rasche,
Michael Cyril Creighton,
Tom Papa
FEATURED REVIEW
Carol Cling, AWFJ
Confronting reality can be a daunting challenge. Especially when your reality includes a loved one whose tenuous grasp of same keeps slipping away, day by day. That’s the premise — and the point — of Paper Spiders, a sensitive, bittersweet tale of mental illness’ impact. As the movie opens, mother ...
Played at
NoHo 7 5.07.21 - 5.13.21
Playhouse 7 5.07.21 - 5.13.21
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 5.07.21 - 5.27.21
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