Over The G.W.

Critically acclaimed for performances and frankness, Over The GW tells writer/director Nick Gaglia´s own harrowing tale of drug rehabilitation in the late 90´s.

The story follows troubled siblings (George Gallagher, Kether Donohue) as they are removed from their Bronx home and committed to a New Jersey treatment center by their well-meaning parents. As an expected 30 day stay stretches to two years, the siblings are systematically brainwashed into a state of abject fear by cult-like staff members.

Resembling jail-time more than rehabilitation, the film strikingly captures, remarkable in its restraint, the gradual erosion of free will exposing physically and mentally abusive reprogramming masquerading as rehabilitation.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 18 November, 2008