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LOVE, DANIELLE – feature film
LOVE, DANIELLE is coming to Annapolis and the Annapolis Film Festival!
COMEDY/DRAMA
When Danielle (DEVIN SIDELL), a happily married thirty-something, tests positive for a BRCA1 gene mutation, she learns that this puts her at a very high risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. Thanks a lot, DNA. She now struggles with daily life, working at her bakery with her hubby Pat (MICHAEL ROARK) and hanging out with her clueless best buds on game night. Her older, smart-alecky sister Amy (JAIME KING) is already undergoing chemotherapy for a breast cancer diagnosis. Danielle now contemplates preemptively removing her “ticking time bomb” breasts and reproductive organs before cancer gets her, too. Her decision-making process involves flashbacks of her screwed up childhood with absent parents, bizarre anesthesia-induced dreams, and toxic confrontations with her recovering alcoholic mother (LESLEY ANN WARREN) and self-absorbed 70’s TV star father (BARRY BOSTWICK). Ultimately, Danielle must figure out how to prioritize her health and well-being by putting herself first.
“Love, Danielle” is the first scripted feature film to address the issues and decisions facing an individual who carries a BRCA gene mutation but has not been diagnosed with cancer. It is estimated that around 1 in 200-400 individuals worldwide carries a BRCA gene mutation.
