Melissa Painter
Director


The Brighton has a traumatic drama in the breast of their family: the twenty-year-old Emily Brighton is intellectually disabled due to a fall when she was one, and her overprotective mother Martha Brighton blames her negligence for the accident. The seventeen-year-old Evie Brighton loves her sister and reads poems and stories for Emily. Their father Harry Brighton, a bank investor, lives in the basement with his models of trains and railroads. Evie mysteriously sabotages her interviews for different universities being rejected, and teaches the poetries of her own to Emily. When Martha hears Emily repeating the poems, she takes notes and shows them to the English teacher Stewart Worthy, who believes that Emily has had a moment of genius. When Evie's only friend James reads the notes, he immediately discloses the truth about the author of the poetries. But when Martha becomes aware, she finds the reality of Evie, triggering a series of revelations.
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Melissa Painter
Director

Lauren Ambrose
Evie Brighton

Amy Madigan
Martha Brighton

Christopher Lloyd
Stewart Worthy

Fran Kranz
James Parks

Taylor Roberts
Emily Brighton

John Savage
Harry Brighton

Vernee Watson
Stanford Interviewer

Scott Adsit
Harvard Interviewer

Aleksa Palladino
Amherst Interviewer

Paul Ryan
Man
Jennifer Schweickert
Librarian
Benjamin Pratt
Dartmouth Interviewer
Joyce Schweickert
Saleslady

Storm Large
TV Host
Dawn O'Leary
Writer