Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter A24 is developing a new documentary titled “Open Wide,” about an orthodontist whose controversial method of reshaping people’s jawlines went viral on TikTok for all the wrong reasons.
Sara Goldblatt directed “Open Wide,” which will be available to watch Jan. 23 on Netflix. The documentary explores a father and son who are fighting to upend mainstream orthodontics.
According to the official logline, “John Mew has waged a lonely war against the industry — and that teenage rite of passage, braces, for decades.
With his son Mike now taking up the fight, the Mews’ fringe theories have turned into a full-blown online sensation. But even while mewinggoes viral on TikTok and the Mews churn out content for their millions of followers, Mike is pursued by the British Orthodontic Society and threatened with expulsion by the very people who took away his father’s license.” The father-son’s technique of “mewing,” which is not scientifically proven, is intended to lift the jawline, alleviate pain and improve sleep.
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