Stay Awake begins playing in theaters in New York City on May 19 and in Los Angeles May 25
Chrissy Metz’s latest film looks to be a tearjerker.
On Thursday, MarVista Entertainment exclusively shared with PEOPLE the trailer for Stay Awake, an independent coming-of-age drama from filmmaker Jamie Sisley. The movie stars Metz, 42, as Michelle, a mother of two whose struggles with drug addiction take a toll on her relationships with sons Ethan (Wyatt Olef) and Derek (Fin Argus).
The trailer shows Ethan’s hopes and dreams for a life in college quickly fade away as he and Derek find their mother relapsing with abuse of prescription drugs. During a hospital stay, a doctor warns Michelle that continued drug abuse could lead to her growing into “the anecdote [her sons] apologetically tell on first dates”.
As Ethan and Derek check her into another rehab facility, the brothers wonder what life might be like if their mother actually stayed sober.
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An official synopsis for the film reads that Stay Awake is “a fictionalized account” of filmmaker Sisley’s adolescence, depicting the characters’ struggle “to get out from under the yoke of a prescription-drug-addicted mother in small-town Virginia.”
Ethan and Derek consistently find themselves “stuck in a cycle of discovering their mom passed out, dragging her to the hospital, and encouraging rehab,” in the film, the synopsis reads. “Despair quickly turns to hope and then boomerangs back again.”
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A description of the movie on its official website describes the story as emblematic of “the roller coaster ride that families go on while…
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