Synopsis
What They Had (2018) is Elizabeth Chomko's family drama, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Bridget rushes back to wintry Chicago after her mother, who has Alzheimer's, wanders out into a blizzard and nearly disappears. Coming home means facing the life she left behind, too.
Her father refuses to admit his wife needs full-time care — he loves her too much to hand her over. Bridget's brother pushes for a memory unit, and an old family wound splits wide open. Caught in the middle is the mother herself, who knows her children one moment and mistakes her husband for a stranger the next. Hilary Swank and Michael Shannon play the siblings, with Robert Forster and Blythe Danner as their parents.
Chomko, making her directing debut, wrote the script out of her own family's experience, and it shows: the illness isn't milked for tears but used to test what each person can actually bear. The film premiered at Sundance and gave Robert Forster one of his last memorable roles. Anyone after a quiet drama about grown kids and aging parents will feel it. Stream What They Had (2018) online on iFILM.
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