GROWING PAINS

By Jack CURTIS

FILM HUB MIDLANDS - as PROMO

Social issues - Completed 2020

A young girl grows cannabis for her chronically ill father but school bullies want some, too.

    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Drama
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 12 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jack CURTIS
    • Writer(s)
    • Jack CURTIS
    • Producer(s)
    • Alexzandra JACKSON (BFI NETWORK), Greg LONSDALE (Loxley Pictures Ltd)
    • Synopsis
    • Rhea, 13 years old, is the primary carer for her father, Martin; A car accident several years prior left him with permanent neurological damage. Martin self medicates with cannabis; the only remedy he’s found effective to offset his pain. When school bullies find out that Martin’s medicine is home-grown, Rhea quickly learns that sharing is not always caring.