We Are Gathered Here Today
[Available currently on various digital platforms.] When a protocol-adhering physician (DaJuan Johnson) video calls to tell the London-based son (Danny Huston) of his ventilator-using patient (Peter Jason) that his father is dying of COVID-19 and that unfortunately hospital visitors are prohibited in Danny Boyd's realistic, factually inspired, moving, heartbreaking, down-to-earth, star-dotted (Bill Smitrovich, Clifton Davis, Margaret Avery, and Luna Blaise), 74-minute film, he then must notify his grief-stricken mother (Jenny O'Hara) to let her know what is happening and in turn distraught, angry extended family members (Nicole Ari Parker, Rae Dawn Chong, Kai Wener, Lin Shaye, Parker McKenna Posey, Phoebe Tonkin, Charlie Barnett, Jeremy Kent Jackson, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Javicia Leslie, and Baker Chase Powell) get together via videoconferencing to share memories, to pay their last respects, and to say goodbye.
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