Directed by Jeff Nichols
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Starz)
The father of a middle class family in suburban Ohio gradually realizes that he may have a mental illness. He is tortured by vivid nightmares of tornadoes, being attacked by his own dog and strangers abducting his daughter. He keeps the dreams to himself, a mistake, but secretly goes to a doctor for advice and treatment. It begins to affect his job and he is eventually fired. His wife, in a wonderfully natural performance by Jessica Chastain, bravely stands by him despite initial misgivings. Mental illness can be a difficult subject to portray on-screen, but writer-director Nichols manages to be both poetic and realistic.
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