‘Parachute’ Review: Life After Rehab In Brittany Snow’s Directing Debut – SXSW

There’s a lot going on in this troubled-girl-on-a-journey story, which recalls the late-’90s proliferation of books like Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation and Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted. Br…

Special Jury Recognition for Performance — whose low-key work anchors a needlessly busy film that never quite settles down.

A lot is packed into the opening salvo, from the moment we see Riley sitting on the curb outside a forbiddingly nondescript building, scrolling through pages and pages of narcissistic Instagram influencers. It will come as no surprise when we find out, shortly after that, that she’s been in for a fairly serious disorder she’ll describe variously as “an eating thing” and “body stuff”, but that doesn’t stop her best friend from insisting they go out for a mutual’s party night.

Can Riley get over her ex, deal with her body-image anxiety and go steady with Ethan, who is just out of stir himself following a brief custodial sentence for vandalism? The program she’s on says that she’s not to date anyone for a year, but Riley throws all caution to the wind and sort-of dates Ethan on a friends-with-benefits basis.

Things seem to improve for her when she gets a job with a murder-mystery dinner theatre company that is run by Bryce . But instead, things just get more complicated, as Riley suddenly starts dating a bartender at work , Ethan has issues both with his ex and his alcoholic father, and, right on cue, Riley’s no-longer-absent mother arrives, a piece of work direct from Central Casting. Instead of de-escalating things, however, what happens aftersimply adds to the bedlam.

Surprisingly, the point you might expect to be labored — her issue with body image — is delicately handled, and these are the better moments, either when Riley is alone with her thoughts, mulling over the real-life nightmares of the past, or in sessions with her therapist. Disappointingly, there’s a lot of extraneous commotion all around it that, rather like its main character, makes

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