Words on Bathroom Walls
Movie2020·US·1h 50min

Words on Bathroom Walls

If you can't trust your mind, trust your heart.

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Premiere
21
Aug2020
Box office×0.39
Budget$8M
Gross$3M
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Words on Bathroom Walls (2020) is a coming-of-age drama you can watch online on iFILM. Adam is months from graduation when schizophrenia breaks through the act he's kept up for years — voices, vivid hallucinations, the works.

Transferred to a Catholic school after a public episode, Adam tries to pass as a normal senior while four pushy figures only he can see crowd into every conversation. Then he meets Maya, a sharp, no-nonsense classmate who tutors him and slowly earns his trust. Charlie Plummer plays Adam without a trace of self-pity, backed by Molly Parker, Walton Goggins and Andy Garcia as a surprisingly gentle priest.

Director Thor Freudenthal adapts Julia Walton's novel with a steady hand, refusing both horror-movie shorthand and easy uplift about mental illness. It lands for anyone after an honest teen romance where a diagnosis shapes a kid but never gets the last word. Stream Words on Bathroom Walls (2020) online on iFILM.

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