Inspired by personal experience with a loved one, husband-and-wife screenwriting partners Inon and Natalie Shampanier take a straightforward and empathetic approach to their story of one woman's persecutory delusional disorder, or what's sometimes referred to in lay terms as paranoia.
Paper Spiders is a message film, but one that's spiked with welcome humor, and its excellent cast is led by the reliably compelling Lili Taylor as the afflicted woman, tormented and tormenting, and Stefania LaVie Owen as her smart and sensitive daughter.
The film is concerned with dispelling the shame attached to mental illness, as well as the misguided notion that sufferers have a "personality problem" rather than a medical condition.
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