Purgatory House (2004)

Directed by

Cindy Baer

Genre

teen film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenager navigates a surreal afterlife after dying by suicide. The story explores her struggles with drug addiction and despair from her own point of view.

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What happens

Purgatory House is an independent film written by 14-year-old Celeste Davis and directed by Cindy Baer, who were paired in the Big Sisters of America program when Davis was 11 years old. It deals with the topics of teen suicide and drug addiction from a teen's perspective. Shot in Los Angeles in the summer of 2001, this movie marked the beginning of the Democratization of Film. A critical darling, it screened at 25 festivals, won 12 festival awards, 2 PRISM Award Nominations, appeared on 5 critics lists for "Best Films of the Year" and was then distributed by Image Entertainment. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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