Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on February 8th, 2024, reviewing “Suncoast,” a re-exploration of the Terri Schiavo case through a fictional nearby family. Streaming on Hulu beginning February 9th.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
In Florida, teenaged Max (Cree Kawa) ends up in the Suncoast hospice center, the same facility as Terri Schiavo … whose case sparked a right-to-die debate. Max’s single mother Kristine (Laura Linney) and sister Doris (Nico Parker) cannot care for him anymore, as he is dying of terminal brain cancer. As the Schiavo case plays out right in front of them, they are mourning their own losses and opportunities, which includes Doris not having a normal teenage life. Things change when she meets a Christian activist named Paul (Woody Harrelson) and at the same time becomes popular with her party hardy classmates.
”Suncoast” is in select theaters, see local listings,...
Rating: 3.5/5.0
In Florida, teenaged Max (Cree Kawa) ends up in the Suncoast hospice center, the same facility as Terri Schiavo … whose case sparked a right-to-die debate. Max’s single mother Kristine (Laura Linney) and sister Doris (Nico Parker) cannot care for him anymore, as he is dying of terminal brain cancer. As the Schiavo case plays out right in front of them, they are mourning their own losses and opportunities, which includes Doris not having a normal teenage life. Things change when she meets a Christian activist named Paul (Woody Harrelson) and at the same time becomes popular with her party hardy classmates.
”Suncoast” is in select theaters, see local listings,...
- 2/9/2024
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Pro-tip: as our current leap year turns the page into February, it’s a good idea to stock up on artificial tears at the Cvs. Why? Because this is an exceptionally intense month for movie-watching. In addition to your 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards screeners, there’s also an exciting collection of Don’t-Miss Indies hitting theaters and streamers, from combat-heavy martial arts action sagas to gentle culinary dramas. So put on some more tea, snuggle up with your kitty, puppy, snake or waifu body pillow of choice, and get to watchin’!
True Detective: Night Country
When You Can Watch: Now
Where You Can Watch: HBO, Max
Director: Issa López
Cast: Jodie Foster, Kali Reis, Fiona Shaw
Why We’re Excited: The fourth season of HBO’s anthology crime drama is the first one for which creator Nic Pizzolatto does not serve as the showrunner or writer; those responsibilities now fall to Mexican filmmaker Issa López,...
True Detective: Night Country
When You Can Watch: Now
Where You Can Watch: HBO, Max
Director: Issa López
Cast: Jodie Foster, Kali Reis, Fiona Shaw
Why We’re Excited: The fourth season of HBO’s anthology crime drama is the first one for which creator Nic Pizzolatto does not serve as the showrunner or writer; those responsibilities now fall to Mexican filmmaker Issa López,...
- 2/2/2024
- by Su Fang Tham
- Film Independent News & More
Two months into the new year, Hulu is in full gear! The streamer will usher in several major premieres this February in addition to a wide variety of library shows and movies. Kick off the month with the premiere of the latest installment of Ryan Murphy and FX’s “Feud,” entitled “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans” and starring Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Tom Hollander, and more.
Recent Emmy winner Quinta Brunson’s “Abbott Elementary” will also welcome students back in the doors as Season 3 makes its highly anticipated premiere mid-month on both ABC and on Hulu the next day, part of several season premieres for ABC this month, including “Not Dead Yet,” “The Conners,” and more.
From the recent Sundance debut film “Suncoast” to the epic historical miniseries “Shōgun,” find out everything coming to Hulu in February, including The Streamable’s top five must-see shows and movies!
Recent Emmy winner Quinta Brunson’s “Abbott Elementary” will also welcome students back in the doors as Season 3 makes its highly anticipated premiere mid-month on both ABC and on Hulu the next day, part of several season premieres for ABC this month, including “Not Dead Yet,” “The Conners,” and more.
From the recent Sundance debut film “Suncoast” to the epic historical miniseries “Shōgun,” find out everything coming to Hulu in February, including The Streamable’s top five must-see shows and movies!
- 1/31/2024
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
Floridian residents of a certain age viscerally remember the name Terri Schiavo. She was a woman in a vegetative state who became the center of a national right-to-die debate when her husband petitioned against her parents to remove her feeding tube. Filmmaker Laura Chinn had a unique experience of the case, which took place in her hometown of Clearwater: her brother shared a hospice center with Schiavo in the mid-aughts as the case reached its divisive climax.
That’s the inspiration for her debut feature Suncoast, which she wrote and directed. Set at the same time and place, the film is a dramedy that wears its messy little heart on its sleeve. Beautifully shot and acted, it refuses to take sides in one of the most controversial modern debates, and is all the better for it.
Doris (Nico Parker) and her mother Kristine (Laura Linney) are struggling to get by...
That’s the inspiration for her debut feature Suncoast, which she wrote and directed. Set at the same time and place, the film is a dramedy that wears its messy little heart on its sleeve. Beautifully shot and acted, it refuses to take sides in one of the most controversial modern debates, and is all the better for it.
Doris (Nico Parker) and her mother Kristine (Laura Linney) are struggling to get by...
- 1/29/2024
- by Lena Wilson
- The Film Stage
Laura Chinn’s directorial debut, Suncoast, is based on the filmmaker’s own experience growing up in Florida in the early 2000s, when her younger brother, blind and deaf and in a wheelchair from brain cancer, was placed in the same hospice center that Terri Schiavo was at. It’s a harrowing story that Chinn detailed in her 2022 memoir titled Acne.
The contrast between the media circus and heated protests surrounding Schiavo’s case and the private suffering of a family—Kristine (Laura Linney) and her teenage daughter, Doris (Nico Parker)—who’s been saying a very long goodbye to Max (Cree Kawa) for nearly a decade, should have orchestrated a riveting tension. Instead, the Schiavo case is a barely felt presence, serving only to bring Doris, exhausted by years of helping care for her brother under the watch of her overbearing mother, into the orbit of Paul (Woody Harrelson...
The contrast between the media circus and heated protests surrounding Schiavo’s case and the private suffering of a family—Kristine (Laura Linney) and her teenage daughter, Doris (Nico Parker)—who’s been saying a very long goodbye to Max (Cree Kawa) for nearly a decade, should have orchestrated a riveting tension. Instead, the Schiavo case is a barely felt presence, serving only to bring Doris, exhausted by years of helping care for her brother under the watch of her overbearing mother, into the orbit of Paul (Woody Harrelson...
- 1/26/2024
- by Derek Smith
- Slant Magazine
It can feel discordant to see someone mourning amid the pastel-hued bungalows of a beach-bound town, beneath a blue sky. Not that single mom Kristine is grieving exactly in bittersweet, comedic Sundance drama “Suncoast” — a fact Laura Linney’s character makes decidedly clear to a counselor at the hospice center of the title. After all, her son Max (a very still Cree Kawa), who’s dying of brain cancer, isn’t gone yet; he’s just no longer there.
Daughter Doris (Nico Parker), however, is still very present, and she’s bristling under years of Kristine’s not-grieving and Max’s unresolved state. If that sounds harsh, it really isn’t. In her semi-autobiographical directorial debut, Laura Chinn places her sympathies with the child who isn’t ill, at least at the outset. Doris has been conscripted into the kind of caretaking that can tax even the most trained of adults,...
Daughter Doris (Nico Parker), however, is still very present, and she’s bristling under years of Kristine’s not-grieving and Max’s unresolved state. If that sounds harsh, it really isn’t. In her semi-autobiographical directorial debut, Laura Chinn places her sympathies with the child who isn’t ill, at least at the outset. Doris has been conscripted into the kind of caretaking that can tax even the most trained of adults,...
- 1/25/2024
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
Do you guys ever think about dying? Searchlight Pictures is ready to introduce some gray clouds with a silver lining to your day by debuting its Suncoast trailer, featuring a touching tale of grief, connection, and making your way forward after tremendous loss.
Inspired by the semi-autobiographical story of a teenager (Nico Parker) who, while caring for her brother along with her audacious mother (Laura Linney), strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist (Woody Harrelson) who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.
Directed and written by Laura Chinn, today’s Suncoast trailer presents a drama that’s part coming-of-age and part tearjerker. The promo introduces us to Dorris, a young woman whose brother is on the verge of death. As Dorris’s mother looks after her ailing child, Dorris runs the house. Rather than be consumed by her brother’s inevitable passing,...
Inspired by the semi-autobiographical story of a teenager (Nico Parker) who, while caring for her brother along with her audacious mother (Laura Linney), strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist (Woody Harrelson) who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.
Directed and written by Laura Chinn, today’s Suncoast trailer presents a drama that’s part coming-of-age and part tearjerker. The promo introduces us to Dorris, a young woman whose brother is on the verge of death. As Dorris’s mother looks after her ailing child, Dorris runs the house. Rather than be consumed by her brother’s inevitable passing,...
- 1/17/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Suncoast, the feature directorial debut of Laura Chinn, starring Nico Parker, Laura Linney, Woody Harrelson and more, has set its Hulu premiere date ahead of its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The Searchlight Pictures title, bowing in U.S. Dramatic Competition on January 21st, will debut on the streamer on February 9th.
A coming-of-age drama inspired by Chinn’s personal experiences from the early aughts, Suncoast follows a teenager (Parker) living with her strong-willed mother (Linney), who must take her brother (Cree Kawa) to live at a specialized facility. There, she strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist (Harrelson) amidst protests surrounding one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.
Chinn directed the pic from her 2020 Black List script, with Matt Walsh, Keyla Monterosso Mejia, Scott MacArthur, Ella Anderson, Daniella Taylor, Amarr, and Ariel Martin rounding out the cast. Producers of the film are Jeremy Plager,...
A coming-of-age drama inspired by Chinn’s personal experiences from the early aughts, Suncoast follows a teenager (Parker) living with her strong-willed mother (Linney), who must take her brother (Cree Kawa) to live at a specialized facility. There, she strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist (Harrelson) amidst protests surrounding one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.
Chinn directed the pic from her 2020 Black List script, with Matt Walsh, Keyla Monterosso Mejia, Scott MacArthur, Ella Anderson, Daniella Taylor, Amarr, and Ariel Martin rounding out the cast. Producers of the film are Jeremy Plager,...
- 1/10/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
An island visitor discovers social media isn’t real life on Fox’s Fantasy Island season two episode seven. “Happy” will air on Monday, February 20, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt.
Roselyn Sanchez leads the cast as Elena Roarke, a descendant of the iconic Mr. Roarke played by Ricardo Montalban in the original ’70s series. Kiara Barnes (The Bold and the Beautiful) plays Ruby Akuda and John Gabriel Rodriguez (Rosewood) stars as Javier.
“Happy” Plot: Amber’s fantasy is to have her actual life be as perfect as her Instagram life. But when Amber’s family transforms into the perfect Insta-versions of themselves, she soon realizes something about all this perfection is very wrong. Meanwhile, Roarke presents another guest, Isaiah, with an envelope that reveals the date of his death.
Episode seven guest stars include Melinda Clarke (The O.C.), Reggie Austin (Desperate Housewives), Stephen Friedrich (Vice), Selah Austria (Cobra Kai), and Cree Kawa.
Roselyn Sanchez leads the cast as Elena Roarke, a descendant of the iconic Mr. Roarke played by Ricardo Montalban in the original ’70s series. Kiara Barnes (The Bold and the Beautiful) plays Ruby Akuda and John Gabriel Rodriguez (Rosewood) stars as Javier.
“Happy” Plot: Amber’s fantasy is to have her actual life be as perfect as her Instagram life. But when Amber’s family transforms into the perfect Insta-versions of themselves, she soon realizes something about all this perfection is very wrong. Meanwhile, Roarke presents another guest, Isaiah, with an envelope that reveals the date of his death.
Episode seven guest stars include Melinda Clarke (The O.C.), Reggie Austin (Desperate Housewives), Stephen Friedrich (Vice), Selah Austria (Cobra Kai), and Cree Kawa.
- 2/14/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Global film sales and U.S. distribution company Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to coming-of-age crime drama-thriller “Signs of Love,” starring Hopper Jack Penn (“Flag Day”), Dylan Penn, Zoë Bleu, and her mother, Rosanna Arquette.
Blue Fox will introduce the film to international buyers at AFM and will distribute it theatrically in the U.S. next year.
The cast also includes Cree Kawa and Wass Stephens. The film, which was shot on location in Philadelphia and is now in post-production, marks the feature film writing and directing debut of Clarence Fuller. The film is being produced by David Michaels and Alexander Norton, with Gabrielle Almagor serving as an executive producer.
“Signs of Love” takes place in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia, a tough neighborhood where cultures mix but the law of the streets still rules.
Hopper Jack Penn stars as Frankie, a young man from north Philly...
Blue Fox will introduce the film to international buyers at AFM and will distribute it theatrically in the U.S. next year.
The cast also includes Cree Kawa and Wass Stephens. The film, which was shot on location in Philadelphia and is now in post-production, marks the feature film writing and directing debut of Clarence Fuller. The film is being produced by David Michaels and Alexander Norton, with Gabrielle Almagor serving as an executive producer.
“Signs of Love” takes place in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia, a tough neighborhood where cultures mix but the law of the streets still rules.
Hopper Jack Penn stars as Frankie, a young man from north Philly...
- 10/29/2021
- by Leo Barraclough and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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