From sexual abuse in religious organizations to workplace exploitations and violence at schools, Hollywood has faithfully highlighted the menace of institutionalized trauma through productions like Cruel Instruction. The 2022 television movie directed by Stanley M. Brooks is a passion project for most of the people involved. This has much to do with the several pertinent social issues the film addressed. Apart from its central theme of institutional trauma and abuse, the movie written by Adrienne Rush also explored subplots propped against matters ranging from learning disability to sexual identity, mental health, and suicide. The Lifetime movie was released on March...
- 1/8/2024
- by Banks Onuoha
- TVovermind.com
Lifetime is set to premiere the new original movie Cruel Instruction starring Camryn Manheim, Cynthia Bailey, Kelcey Mawema and Viv Leacock on March 12 at 8 p.m. Et.
The project, inspired by true events, tells the story of Kayla Adams (Mawema), a 16-year-old who was sent to a youth residential treatment center by her mother Karen Adams (Bailey) at the suggestion of a school counselor. While at the Utah facility—led by headmistress Miss Connie (Manheim)— Kayla, her roommate and the rest of the residents are subjected to draconian treatments including force-feeding medications, arbitrary punishments, solitary confinement, and verbal and physical abuse to keep the students in line.
When Kayla and Amanda reach their limit, they band together to survive and fight to expose the abuse before it’s too late.
Following the airing of the original movie, Lifetime will air the special Beyond the Headlines: Cruel Instruction featuring interviews with real-life treatment program survivors.
The project, inspired by true events, tells the story of Kayla Adams (Mawema), a 16-year-old who was sent to a youth residential treatment center by her mother Karen Adams (Bailey) at the suggestion of a school counselor. While at the Utah facility—led by headmistress Miss Connie (Manheim)— Kayla, her roommate and the rest of the residents are subjected to draconian treatments including force-feeding medications, arbitrary punishments, solitary confinement, and verbal and physical abuse to keep the students in line.
When Kayla and Amanda reach their limit, they band together to survive and fight to expose the abuse before it’s too late.
Following the airing of the original movie, Lifetime will air the special Beyond the Headlines: Cruel Instruction featuring interviews with real-life treatment program survivors.
- 2/2/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
A little girl not named Grace sits quietly at the center of Barry Jenkins’ “The Underground Railroad.” Introduced in the third episode holding a finger to her lips, “Grace” — played by Mychal-Bella Bowman and whose real name constitutes a minor yet precious spoiler — has been hiding in a cramped attic for many, many months, waiting for the real, operational, underground railroad to whisk her out of North Carolina and into safer, less confined spaces. Grace isn’t the show’s lead, or even one of the leads, though she does cross paths with Cora (Thuso Mbedu), the chief protagonist and most seasoned traveler, when the grown runaway crawls into Grace’s stooped refuge, seeking similar concealment from the malevolent forces out for them both.
Like so much of the Amazon Prime Video limited series, Grace blends literal and figurative interpretations; she’s a flesh-and-blood character and an ethereal embodiment of...
Like so much of the Amazon Prime Video limited series, Grace blends literal and figurative interpretations; she’s a flesh-and-blood character and an ethereal embodiment of...
- 5/12/2021
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Among those selected to take part in the Sundance Institute January Screenwriters Lab we find Adrienne Rush who brought This Land is Your Land to the Sundance Mountain Resort just prior to the launch of the 2019 edition of Sundance. The Mfa in Screenwriting from Fsu’s College of Motion Picture Arts grad was an assistant to Destin Daniel Cretton’s The Glass Castle, and recently contributed to Barry Jenkins’ upcoming Underground Railroad.
This Land is Your Land tells the story of a young aspiring artist tracks down her favorite painter, now a recluse living in rural Michigan, in hopes of becoming his assistant and finding her voice.…...
This Land is Your Land tells the story of a young aspiring artist tracks down her favorite painter, now a recluse living in rural Michigan, in hopes of becoming his assistant and finding her voice.…...
- 2/21/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
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