A
profoundly moving film combined with acting excellence made for
riveting viewing. I recommend it highly. It is a family drama
surrounding their emotionally explosive encounter with a drug addicted
son whom they love and try with all their might to help. It shows one
the imprisoning grip that drug addiction can have on those whose
personality traits and cerebral proclivities place the addicted in a
solitary confinement prison out of which there seems to be simply no
exit. The son, played by Timothée Chalamet with phenomenal expertise,
is dependent on his family, especially his dad played with great depth
by Steve Carell, to help him when he simply cannot help himself.
Even
if one is not familiar with the problems of drug addiction one can still
understand what it means to be held captive by an emotional situation
the escape from which seems impossible. The drama is based on true life
events of a family caught in the tornadic grip of a son whose imprisoning chains of
addiction ultimately envelope them all.
