Love desperately, live recklessly.
Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the façade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very real danger will force her to face the painful root of her destructiveness and its crumbling effect on those she loves.
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- Renoon TMDB · Aug 20167/10
> How should an ideal mother behave when she's haunted by her bad past. The film is about a small family of two little kids and their parents, but all the focus was on the mother who is a drug addict and struggling with mental illness, yet care a lot for her children. But how long this happy family stays that way is the film going to reveal in its entire narration. Based on the book of the same name, half a million budget film, has a decent cast who have given their best for it. This is not a film you watch to enjoy, but a film about the families around us. This is a depiction of the real world story, like not all the families are happier as we see them from the outside. There are some secrets in them, which sets a bad example for their own children once they come to know the true nature of their parents. But some would decide to fight hard to make everything come back to the normal and some won't. That is where film derives, how it all ends makes this film unique from the other similar ones. I think this film was decent with an important topic. Not everyone would end up happy with their watch, because the story won't end up as they thought. The novel was written by a woman, so thi
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Cast
- Sarah SilvermanLaney Brooks
- Josh CharlesBruce Brooks
- Thomas SadoskiDonny
- Skylar GaertnerEli Brooks
- Chris SarandonRoger
- Terry KinneyDr. Page
- Mia BarronSusan
- Shayne ColemanJaney Brooks
- Kristin GriffithNurse Pauline
- Nick TaylorGuard
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- Adam SalkyDirector
- Amy KoppelmanWriter
- Paige DylanWriter
- Eric LinDirector of Photography
- Zack RyanOriginal Music Composer
- Tamara MeemEditor
- David LevienProducer
- Mike HarropProducer
- Brian KoppelmanProducer
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