Evento

Self-Medicated presented by the Phoenix Film Society

The Arizona Republic and The Phoenix Film Society present a screening of the "Self-Medicated"

Winner of the Phoenix Film Festival's Audience Award and now being released nationwide through Thinkfilm in late August.

Directed by: Monty Lapica

Cast: Monty Lapica, Diane Venora, Greg Germann and Kristina Anapau

When: Tuesday, August 21st at 7:00pm
Where: Harkins Scottsdale 101 Theatre

Following the screening there will be a discussion about the film.

Check out the trailer here: http://www.selfmedicated.com/trailer.html

Synopsis:

A true story. Having recently suffered the death of his father, seventeen year old Andrew Eriksen's inability to cope with the loss creates for him a world of entropy, denial, and self-loathing. Once a promising young scholar and athlete, Andrew finds himself on a drug-addled path to self destruction. Hypocritically resentful of his mother Louise for her own chemical dependency and what he sees as her abandonment of her responsibility to him as a mother, Andrew withdraws further and further away at a time they need each other most. Louise's last resort is to hire a company that kidnaps troubled teens placing them in an extreme reform school on the island of Samoa. After subjected to the secret physical and emotional abuses of the program, Andrew stages a daring escape. It is then that he learns the only thing that will help Andrew come to terms with the loss of his father is Andrew himself.