Liz Sargent

I'm your host, Mike White.

My guest today is director Liz Sargent, whose feature Take Me Home grew out of a Sundance-selected short and stars her own sister, Anna Sargent, as a disabled woman navigating her family's aging caregivers, told entirely from Anna's point of view rather than the people around her.

Take Me Home opens in New York on September 23rd before expanding to Los Angeles and beyond.

Visit willa.org for more information and to find out where the movie is playing near you.

Okay.

It is directed and written by Liz Sargent.

[lip smack] Um, this is per the film fest's website.

Says, "Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee, cares for aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting each other's needs.

When a Florida heat, heat wave shatters their family and Anna's routine, her future's uncertain till she creates a world she can thrive." Says, "Liz Sargent's intimate debut drama," this is her directorial debut or feature, directorial debut, "examines the shifting demands placed on a unique and uniquely challenged family in a Florida suburb." Says, uh, "Working with a terrific ensemble, the director details the struggles of Anna," who is also the director's sister, Anna Sargent.

Uh, "Fellow adopted sibling Emily, who is played by Ali Ahn, and devoted father Bob, Victor Slezak, who is covering signs of dementia." So I, I liked this one pretty good.

Again, it is based on Sargent's, uh, short film.

That struggle of what do I want for myself And what my family needs for me is real.

And that is the question that writer director, Liz Sargent couldn't shake.

So Liz's parents were aging and they were struggling to take care of themselves and her sister, Anna, who is cognitively disabled.

And Liz saw herself becoming the one who would eventually have to step in.

It's her debut film and the question underneath all of it.

What happens when your dreams and your responsibility to the people you love collide.

Let's get into it, and let's talk to writer-director Liz Sargent.

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