SNAPSHOT
The film centers on a family in crisis. Bridget (Hilary Swank) returns home to Chicago at her brother’s (Michael Shannon) urging to deal with her mother’s (Blythe Danner) Alzheimer’s and her father’s (Robert Forster) reluctance to let go of their life together. (synopsis via Coming Soon)
Life, for all its many blessings, can be a frightening inhospitable place at times.
That’s why family and friends, and the shared lives we create with them are so important; they anchor us, give us a sense of belonging, of time and of place, and so losing them … well losing them is just about unthinkable.
But sadly it happens, and What They Had dwells in that awful in-between place where everything you once loved and enjoyed is on its way out but hasn’t yet left, leaving you grieving and lost in an almost-impossible-to-bear limbo.
No doubt, this will be a devastating film for anyone who’s ever lost a parent, or really any significant life relationships at all, but it will speak the truth of what it’s like when life loses a little bit of its sustaining richness and we’re left to carry on as best we can.
What They Had premieres 19 October in USA and Canada.
http://www.vulture.com/2018/07/what-they-had-trailer-hilary-swank-reminds-you-to-call-mom.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=vulture&utm_source=tw