Movies can work, beyond stories, as a way to fictionalize certain experiences of their filmmakers. This is the case of director Elizabeth Chomko, responsible for the film What They Had, starring Oscar winner Hilary Swank.
During her childhood in Chicago, Chomko loved her grandparents. Seeing that her grandmother's beautiful memories slowly faded away, the writer says, she treasured them even more: "seeing her strive to remember made me realize what a memory as a gift means. What are we without our memories?" she explains.
"Making this film was a very personal journey to immortalize them both, as a particularly beautiful moment in my life and everything my childhood and my hometown had meant to me. It was a way to control time, to fight against the fading of memory," she said.
The plot of What They Had
Bridget (Swank) returns to her childhood home when her brother Nick (Michael Shannon) asks for help when their father (Robert Forster) resist to hospitalize their mother (Blythe Danner) who suffers from Alzheimer.
A drama that will move the audience!