Night Has Settled

APPROPIATE

2014 / 90min.

Rating5.143

Genres

Drama

Synopsis

In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at thirteen, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City when he is traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper (and only true maternal figure), a sixty-five-year-old Chilean woman named Aida. What was supposed to be an exhilarating and somewhat fearful rite of passage - diving into the exciting, fast-paced world of first experiences - quickly becomes skewed by an incomprehensible depression, and a house of interior horrors. Surrounded by women - his untraditional, Spanish, photographer mother (more interested in the role of confidante than mother) his sister, a comedic, door-slamming tormentor, marked by her parent's divorce; and Aida, his silver-haired emotional focal point on the verge of death in Lenox Hill Hospital - Oliver struggles to maintain his role as "man of the house" and his sanity.

Directors

Actors

Spencer List

Heather Braverman

Adriana Barraza

Marlee Roberts

Tommy Nelson

Courtney Baxter

Eric Nelson

Pilar López de Ayala

Irwin I. Shanah

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