
Moonlight(2016)
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.


“Let go with love.”
Over the course of one night, a woman drives across LA with her heroin addict brother in search of a detox center, with his two-year-old daughter in tow.

Abbi Jacobson
Katie

Dave Franco
Seth
Charlotte Carel
Ella
Madeline Carel
Ella

Jane Kaczmarek
Gloria

Dawan Owens
Jack

Tim Matheson
Gary

Jen Tullock
Bianca

Maya Erskine
Cameron

Heidi Sulzman
Pharmacist
6 Balloons is a drama film released in 2018 exploring themes of drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, addiction, family relationships, drug use. Directed by Marja-Lewis Ryan, it stars Abbi Jacobson, Dave Franco, Charlotte Carel. Over the course of one night, a woman drives across LA with her heroin addict brother in search of a detox center, with his two-year-old daughter in tow.
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