Mickey Hardaway (2023)

Mickey Hardaway (2023). 1h 46m

“Mickey Hardaway is a film every mental health practitioner should see, heck the whole world should see as Mickey Hardaway shows exactly how our mental health system fails us.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eShot entirely in black and white the only color we get is when Mickey meets Grace as we see Grace is the only color, and brightness in his painful black-and-white life. Cox does a phenomenal job in his directorial debut. I applaud him so much and can relate deeply to this film. Much of it brought tears to my eye as I saw Mickey and Grace so much my husband and me. Cox presents a beautiful piece that is flawless in my opinion, and the cast is stellar. Every shot has a meaning and every cast member commands each scene they are in. David Chattam gives a vicious performance as Randall Hardaway aka Mickeyu0026#39;s dad, and he delivers the cruelest line ever delivered in a film that I have ever heard.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRashad Hunter as Mickey though is the breakout star. He portrays Mickey with a realistic vulnerability that you can not help but feel even maybe relate to. I like how Cox cuts Mickey slip into instability in an almost uneventful way till itu0026#39;s too late, which, is kind of true to life. When a person goes off the deep end no one ever sees it coming. It is usually after the fact the signs are seen.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMickey Hardaway is currently out on the film festival circuit and should be winning tons of awards in my book.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA great indie art house piece my rating is 10/10.”