A teenager caring for her brother befriends an eccentric activist protesting a landmark medical case.
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While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.
"Starring Nico Parker (The Last of Us), Laura Linney (Ozark), and Woody Harrelson (Zombieland), Suncoast tells the semi-autobiographical story of actress and screenwriter Laura Chinn, in her directorial debut. The film follows a teenager (Parker) attempting to navigate the typical events of a girl her age while dealing with the responsibilities of caring for her sick brother alongside her demanding mother (Linney). Simultaneously, she forms an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist (Harrelson), who is involved in one of the most significant medical cases in recent years (that of Terry Schiavo). Despite some script stumbles, Suncoast functions as a moving coming-of-age story from a female perspective, and you'll enjoy it if you liked films such as The Edge of Seventeen or Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret."