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MOUTHPIECE

By Patricia ROZEMA

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Drama - Completed 2018

MOUTHPIECE is a powerful, funny and highly original look into the conflicted psyche of Cassandra Haywood - a fiercely independent millennial woman. Cass is a single writer who lives by her own rules. She’s also a bit of a disaster.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 91 mn
- Director(s)
- Patricia ROZEMA
- Cast
- Norah SADAVA, Amy NOSTBAKKEN
- Producer(s)
- Christina PIOVENSAN, Patricia ROZEMA, Jennifer SHIN
- Synopsis
- MOUTHPIECE is a powerful, funny and highly original look into the conflicted psyche of Cassandra Haywood - a fiercely independent millennial woman. Cass is a single writer who lives by her own rules. She’s also a bit of a disaster.
  
  Following the sudden death of her mother, Elaine (Maev Beaty), Cass finds herself in crisis, unable to think straight, with a debate raging inside her head. MOUTHPIECE makes this invisible conflict visible as Cassandra (Amy Nostbakken & Norah Sadava) battle it out while trying to write the eulogy that, for some mysterious reason, the whole family is dead set against. While she tries to accomplish an overwhelming set of funeral arrangements, her brother, Danny (Jake Epstein), father Chris (Ari Cohen) and even her aunt Jane (Paula Boudreau) all try to convince her not to speak. She insists it must be her.
  
  But what will she say? Every attempt opens up a new raging internal battle. Which, on screen, manifests as insults, wrestling and the occasional drowning.
  Adapted from the multi-award winning play of the same name, MOUTHPIECE unfolds through raucous jokes, musical numbers and heartbreaking memories that add up to a deeply moving and political portrait of a mother and a daughter as seen through the eyes of one conflicted young woman.