What is it about?
Doris is a teenager whose brother has just been placed in a special institution by their mother Christine, a very determined woman. There, Doris forms an incredible friendship with Paul, an eccentric activist…
The moving drama of the beginning of the year
Fresh from arriving on Disney+ after causing a sensation at the Sundance Film Festival in the US earlier this year, this moving film will bring a few tears to your eyes. Based on the true story of writer-director Laura Chin, for whom this is her first feature film, Suncoast takes us back to the 2000s following the journey of a young girl, Doris.
Nico Parker (The Last of Us) stars as Doris, a shy and withdrawn teenager who is under pressure from her mother Christine (Laura Lynn) and her brother Max (Cree Cava)’s illness, which has put her in a coma. .
Christine is a brave mother who works hard but asks a lot of Doris, which she ignores. But a life-changing decision could come as a result of a difficult decision: sending Max to Suncoast, a hospice center that allows people to end their lives in peace.
Preoccupied with the final preparations for Max’s departure, Christine cannot see her daughter Doris changing and developing and creating a new environment with very different friends in high school.
Doris pushes the limits, searches, questions herself, and even finds a listening ear in Paul (Woody Harrelson), an eccentric activist who demonstrates to revive a patient from the Suncoast who wants to end his palliative care.
During her wanderings, Doris becomes aware of the world around her and realizes that she must express her feelings before it is too late and above all, attend to the people she loves before letting them go. peace
Even if it doesn’t offer any surprises, Suncoast is a good first film that breaks down and questions faith, ethics, mourning, narrative and humanity, while having the intelligence to never utter a moralizing word while offering joy and above all beautiful tears.
The Suncoast Movie is available on Disney+.
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