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An emotional authenticity courses through the veins of "Suncoast," the filmmaking debut of Laura Chinn. That's surely in part because the character-driven, coming-of-age film - a Searchlight Pictures release debuting this week on Hulu - is semi-autobiographical. Like the movie's main character, C
“Suncoast” is rated R for teen drug and alcohol use, language and some sexual references. Runtime: 1 hour, 49 minutes.
Most films that claim to work (semi) autobiographically can only succeed if the screenwriter can be as accurate, and mindful as possible to events, any of them
Laura Chinn’s promising but predictable Suncoast fictionalizes losing her brother to cancer at the hospice center that housed Terri Schiavo.
Although it occasionally makes the ever-so-slight stumble, "Suncoast" steadily builds to a climax likely to give the viewer a serious case of the feels.