Written by Annika Marks
Directed by Rich Newey
Starring Annika Marks, Jenny O’Hara, Jane Kaczmarek and Betsy Brandt
Running time: 1 hour and 46 minutes

by Audrey Callerstrom

Natalie (Annika Marks) watches the elderly Eleanor (Jenny O’Hara) sleeping in her hospital bed, hooked up to tubes and machines. A doctor tells Natalie about Eleanor’s heart condition and that, if Eleanor sticks to a good protocol, “she has a good shot.” “At what?” Natalie asks. “Time,” the doctor says. And that’s all that it is, more time. But Eleanor doesn’t want more time. She’s had enough time. She’s lived. She’s been in love. But now, she lives a lonely, monotonous existence in a nursing home ironically named Paradise Lane. She occupies a bed in a shared unit. She stares at the ceiling, waiting to die.