Written by Cheryl Guerriero, who has one other story credit. Stevens is mainly known for bit parts in things, and music videos and documentaries (one about the environment featuring Leonardo di Caprio). How do people get these gigs? Well, Cheryl wrote a screenplay about girl gangs Girl on Point which got her an agent and was almost made, published a novel version. She was adopted out of a not too nice bit of New York and often wondered what her life would have been like if she hadn't been - which sort of points to this story about an ex-con who ends up becoming a surrogate father to a neglected boy in the trailer opposite.
Wondered who this great actress was playing a druggie so convincingly - it's only Juno Temple, thus reuniting her with Justin Timberlake from Wonder Wheel - good fallout. He's nicely restrained and the kid, Ryder Allen, nicely natural. June Squibb plays the grandma, with Alisha Wainwright, Lance Nichols (caretaker), Dean Winters, Jesse Boyd.
It was sort of predictable but thoroughly enjoyable.
Photographed by Tobias Schliessler (Beauty and the Beast, Dreamgirls, Mr. Holmes, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom), edited by Geoffrey Richman.
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