Streaming only on Hulu. February 9th.
Inspired by the semi-autobiographical story of a teenager (Nico Parker) who, while caring for her brother along with her audacious mother (Laura Linney), strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist (Woody Harrelson) who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.
Cast: Laura Linney, Nico Parker, Ella Anderson, Daniella Taylor, Amarr, Ariel Martin, and Woody Harrelson
Inspired by the semi-autobiographical story of a teenager (Nico Parker) who, while caring for her brother along with her audacious mother (Laura Linney), strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist (Woody Harrelson) who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.
Cast: Laura Linney, Nico Parker, Ella Anderson, Daniella Taylor, Amarr, Ariel Martin, and Woody Harrelson
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Short filmTranscript
00:00 I'm gonna need your help with him in the morning.
00:02 I'm taking her today!
00:04 You can go!
00:05 Doris is a 17-year-old girl.
00:12 Even though her brother is terminally ill,
00:14 she wants to be a normal teenager
00:16 and have a normal high school experience.
00:18 You can come to my house if you need a place to party.
00:21 My mom won't be there, and you can do whatever you want.
00:23 I have to tell everybody.
00:25 Um, who are you?
00:28 Doris.
00:29 I do feel like there are those extraordinary movies that
00:33 really have a great impact on people,
00:36 and this really could be one of them.
00:38 Your house is super homey.
00:44 Thank you.
00:45 Doris has been assisting her mother
00:47 in caring for her brother.
00:49 Christine is so in need of someone who can console her
00:52 and help her through this that she turns
00:54 her daughter into that role.
00:56 Where they live, how they live, I
00:57 don't think it's a typical mother-daughter relationship,
01:00 but I don't think anything's typical about this family.
01:03 He's my child.
01:04 When he's in pain, I'm in pain.
01:06 I'm your child, too.
01:08 What about--
01:08 God's sake, give me a break.
01:12 Doris has her own issues and her own plight in life.
01:16 She's been consistently told that her problems just
01:19 aren't important on the grand scale.
01:21 But her friends try and be there for her,
01:23 which I think is really lovely to see,
01:24 because it's really different to anything else.
01:26 It's been really fun to play around, especially
01:28 with the younger cast, because we all can just kind of feed
01:31 off of each other and play around and joke around.
01:34 We were able to spend time together
01:36 before we began shooting.
01:38 And I think we immediately clicked, all of us.
01:40 Oh, Doris, come here.
01:43 I think her role is to take some of the wisdom
01:46 that she's gained from going through these really real
01:48 things and kind of bring it into their world.
01:50 But their role in her life is to let her kind of forget
01:53 and leave that at home for a while.
01:56 This is the best night of my life.
02:00 [laughter]
02:02 It's not really like anything you've seen.
02:05 I think everyone who goes through these big struggles
02:08 are learning compassion.
02:09 You're learning empathy.
02:11 You're learning what's really important in the world.
02:13 [screaming]
02:16 Just to be more understanding of one another
02:17 and to be considerate of what others have gone through,
02:20 just to remind people of that overarching theme.
02:25 [music playing]
02:29 [music playing]
02:32 [Music]