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Laura Dern Steps Up to Support Animated Short About Grief in the Face of Tragedy

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Addie Morfoot ContributorWhen the animated short “If Anything Happens I Love You” debuted on Netflix, it soon became a viral sensation.

Viewers found the dialogue-free film, about two parents grappling with grief after losing their daughter in a school shooting, so moving it spawned a “Can you get through this film without crying?” challenge online.Millions failed that challenge.But they weren’t the first.

Nearly a year earlier, a screening for actor Laura Dern had the same effect.“When I watched it, my heart broke open,” she recalls. “I couldn’t stop crying.”At that point, in early 2020, it was still just an animatic early in the edit phase, screened for Dern by the film’s writers-directors, Will McCormack and Michael Govier.

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