For his directorial debut, Jamie Sisley draws on his youth and
dealing with a mother addicted to prescription drugs.
Chrissy Metz stars as the addict mother of two teenage boys (Wyatt Oleff, Fin Argus) who find themselves trapped in a
never-ending cycle of trying to get their mother the help she so badly
needs.
Stay Awake is in US cinemas from May 19th. A UK/ROI release
has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
An American indie debut drama of uncommon empathy that is very much of the moment: a fictionalized account of the filmmaker’s coming of age, as he struggles to get out from under the yoke of a prescription-drug-addicted mother in small-town Virginia. Life in the last, lame-duck months of high school, with a job at the Jolly Cow ice cream drive-in, would be cringe-inducing enough without a deeply depressed, self-destructive mother (Chrissy Metz, star of THIS IS US). Wyatt Oleff (CITY ON FIRE) and Fin Argus (QUEER AS FOLKS) play teenage brothers stuck in a cycle of discovering their mom passed out, dragging her to the hospital, and encouraging rehab. Despair quickly turns to hope and then boomerangs back again.
