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Release Date: 2012
Cast: Jim Hanks, Johnny Pacar, Brian Dietzen, Celeste Davis
Categories: Movies, Indie, Teen, Drama Film, Coming Of Age
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Purgatory House is a 2004 independent film. Written by troubled teen Celeste Davis at the age of 14, it deals with the topics of teen suicide and drug addiction entirely from a teen's perspective. The film was shot in Los Angeles in the summer of 2001, when Davis was 15 years old.
Director Cindy Baer and teen writer Celeste Davis met when they were paired in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, when Davis was 11 years old. By the age of 13 Davis had lost interest in school, and felt disconnected from most of the relationships in her life. Longing to connect with something,... MORE
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Purgatory House is a 2004 independent film. Written by troubled teen Celeste Davis at the age of 14, it deals with the topics of teen suicide and drug addiction entirely from a teen's perspective. The film was shot in Los Angeles in the summer of 2001, when Davis was 15 years old.
Director Cindy Baer and teen writer Celeste Davis met when they were paired in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, when Davis was 11 years old. By the age of 13 Davis had lost interest in school, and felt disconnected from most of the relationships in her life. Longing to connect with something, she began to write Purgatory House: a heartfelt screenplay portraying her real life challenges to fit in, cope with peer pressure, deal with the teen drug culture surrounding her, and find meaning for her existence. When Davis turned 14 and landed herself in a teen shelter, Baer decided to give her a positive focus by producing Purgatory House as a movie that Davis would star in. Now it appears that Davis may be the youngest sole-credited screenwriter to have a feature produced.
Purgatory House centers around a lonely teen who feels disconnected from the world around her. When she can no longer LESS
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