Maladies (film)

Maladies is a 2012 film starring James Franco and written and directed by Carter. This was the pairs second collaboration, after Erased James Franco.

Maladies is divided into chapters, titled Feelings, Symmetry, and I See You. The course of the narrative lacks a specific timeframe although the environment, setting and costumes appears designed for the early 1960s, repeated allusions to the cult leader Jim Jones in the film are somewhat jolting, as the footage of Jones used is from 1978. The film follows the foibles of its four main characters as they seek to resolve maladies that make it difficult for them to relate with one another and cope with themselves. James James Franco is an exTV star cum writer who finds himself unable to complete a novel. Patricia Fallon Goodson, James sister, is unable to speak. Catherine Catherine Keener, their housepainter, is a crossdresser. And Delmar, their neighbor David Strathairn, must struggle with his unrequited love for James.Maladies premiered in 2013 at the Berlin International Film Festival and the SXSW film festival in Austin. ........

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