Major plot point is a character abandoning a child. In general, the film's tension is drawn from the parental desire to be free of an increasingly burdensome situation.
The main character is depicted drinking often. It is not clarified or brought up in the movie but it seems that she is having a problem with alcohol abuse/addiction.
Other drugs are mentioned and weed is being used at some point, but not in any way that points to an addiction.
Yes, graphically. The hamster is run over on traffic with almost excessive blood/gore. The event is very traumatic to the characters that watch it happen.
it’s a hamster. it happens right after the get the hamster on the car ride home. the hamster was in visible distress before the worst part happens & I closed my eyes but my boyfriend confirmed the hamster does die horribly.
many scenes in an outpatient eating disorder treatment center. no characters are institutionalized but the doctor mentions a character needing a higher level of care so alluding to being an inpatient.
The main character is having a really hard time sleeping and as such there are multiple scenes of briefly falling asleep or being almost asleep/half asleep.
This is a very stressful movie. The main character is very stressed out during most of this film. She is doing breathing exercises often in this movie.
character describes feeling this way without using these words explicitly and the film edits in a way that reminds me of when i have experienced dissociation so it was triggering.
There is a detailed confession of a character getting an abortion, including discussing the pain of the procedure and the regret. It is an emotionally devastating scene and could be very triggering.
***Spoiler*** The line "I aborted the wrong kid" may be deeply affecting for some audiences.
Not exactly, though the main character's apartment is destroyed by a flood in the beginning, leaving her to live out of a motel with her daughter for an indefinite period