Tillie, a floundering young woman and her charismatic, alcoholic father, struggle to resolve their fractured relationship in the weirdest possible way: after he dies, his ghost appears in mirrors to haunt everyone in the family but Tillie. The family must do everything they can to make Tillie see her father or else they will be plagued by this ghost forever.
Acting
Craig Bierko's charmingly pathetic ghost dad
Writing
Claudia Lonow's brutally honest mother-daughter dialogues
Direction
Balancing supernatural absurdity with raw grief
Director
Claudia Lonow
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Claudia Lonow cast herself as Frankie, reportedly rewriting scenes mid-shoot based on her own therapy sessions.
The mirror-as-barrier visually literalizes how addiction creates spectators of trauma—family members who see everything but are blocked from intervening.
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