After being stricken with Alzheimer’s disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.
Tag: alzheimer’s disease
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The Bad Mother’s Handbook
Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she’s its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.
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Away from Her
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets Grant and turns her affection to Aubrey, another patient in the home.
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The Savages
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
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Choke
A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother’s hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.
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Hollow
A woman with early signs of Alzheimer’s begins to have lucid dreams and nightmares that a living Punch puppet has moved in with her and her family. She uncovers something sinister is observing her every move.
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Poetry
A sexagenarian South Korean woman enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson’s appalling wrongdoing.
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A Separation
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer’s disease.
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Friends with Benefits
Dylan is done with relationships. Jamie decides to stop buying into the Hollywood clichés of true love. When the two become friends they decide to try something new and take advantage of their mutual attraction – but without any emotional attachment.
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes
A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caesar decides to revolt against those who have harmed him.