This is a great little movie about love of family, hope, finding true love, and dealing with mental illness. Each character does a good job acting and portraying the difficulty each has. I was especially empathetic to the brother since he has to deal with the protagonist's bad decisions. The film is full of hope and despair as the protagonist struggles with psychotic episodes of both extremes, both mania and depression. It does a good job of not focusing too much on one or the other to overwhelm the film with either. I would say this film is really about hope. There is beauty in how each character deals with hope. The protagonist in finding love and purpose, the brother just trying to help his ailing brother, to even the brother's wife who is pregnant and struggling to deal with the life she married into while preparing to have a child of her own. This movie does a great job helping the viewer to be aware of people's challenges with mental illness while also giving us hope without becoming too cheesy or sentimental. I highly recommend seeing this film when you just need some hope. It struggles to find its way there but the payoff when you get there is worth it. Such as life.
