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Suncoast : Exclusive Interview with Writer/Director Laura Chinn

©Eric Zachanowich/Searchlight Pictures Synopsis : Inspired by Chinn’s life experience from the early 2000s, follows a teenager (Nico Parker) living with her strong-willed mother (Laura Linney), who must take her brother to live at a specialized facility. There, she strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist (Woody Harrelson) amidst protests surrounding one of…

Sundance Review / Suncoast: Nico Parker Shines in Poignant Tale

There are certain key events that people from a particular generation will remember. One of them for Americans who were alive in the early 2000s is the case of Terri Schiavo, who was in a vegetative state and whose husband’s request to remove her feeding tube attracted national controversy and attention. Her story played a…