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A Light Beneath Their Feet

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A teen (Madison Davenport) must decide whether to attend a faraway college or stay near home to care for her bipolar mother (Taryn Manning).
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Matt Fagerholm RogerEbert.com "A Light Beneath Their Feet" is a triumph of empathetic filmmaking. Rated: 4/4 May 6, 2016 Full Review Robert Kojder Flickering Myth It's hard to muster up the willpower to care about any of this. Rated: 2/5 Dec 4, 2017 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member a very strong drama about a high school senior who has to make a decision of whether to stay local and take care of her mentally bipolar mother or choose to leave and start her college life away from home. a powerful performance. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member A Light Beneath Their Feet has a few moments where it addresses the theme of bipolar disability perhaps too directly (as in, abruptly in the middle of a plot scene), but its wonderfully acted by the two leads and has a story that has to be very relatable for some of the college-bound people out there. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member "A Light Beneath Their Feet" often handles its potentially dark material with a little too much care, but that doesn't stop it from being a truly rich and sincere mother/daughter drama. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Between a 7/10 and 8/10, the film's strength lies in its honest and realistic portrayal of mental illness and the toll it exacts on those in its sufferer's orbit. It manages to do this with a sense of humor that does not oversimplify. Impressive. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A teen (Madison Davenport) must decide whether to attend a faraway college or stay near home to care for her bipolar mother (Taryn Manning).
Director
Valerie Weiss
Producer
Jeffrey Loeb, Robert Johnson
Screenwriter
Moira McMahon
Distributor
Emerging Pictures
Production Co
Ph.D. Productions
Rating
R (Drug Use|Some Teen Sexuality)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 6, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 26, 2016
Runtime
1h 30m
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