Stover and Hasch to speak at Dec. 9 screening
Holly Stover - newly elected representative for District 89. Courtesy of Helen Meserve
A scene from “Beautiful Boy.” Courtesy of the theater
Holly Stover - newly elected representative for District 89. Courtesy of Helen Meserve
A scene from “Beautiful Boy.” Courtesy of the theater
“Beautiful Boy” is the heartbreaking story of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with their beloved son’s drug addiction over many years. The film plays Dec. 7-13 at Harbor Theater, 185 Townsend Ave.
Holly Stover, program director of the Addiction Outreach Program at Boothbay Region Community Resource Council and Boothbay Harbor Police Chief Bob Hasch, will speak at the screening on Sunday, Dec. 9 at 2 p.m. They will introduce the film, and stay afterwards for a question and answer session. Both have been intimately involved in helping young people in our community who have become victims of the opioid epidemic.
Stover and Hasch will briefly discuss ways our community is working together to address this all too common problem.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for members. Complimentary cider and donuts will be served starting at 1:30 p.m. The film is rated R and is 120 minutes.
Starring Steve Carell as the father, and Timothy Chalamet as the meth-addicted son, “Beautiful Boy” is a touching story of a family in turmoil. “Even if you can’t relate to the drug-addiction plot, most people will be able to relate to a parent’s love of a child and a boy’s love of his family and the desire to make them proud,” says a review in the Arizona Republic.
Maine is one of the New England states hardest hit by the country’s opioid epidemic. Because many Boothbay region families have been touched by this nationwide problem, “Beautiful Boy” may ring true to everyone in the community. As Screen Daily says, “Chalamet is elusively liquid in the role of a child who sabotages his life without ever really being able to express why.”
Stover is our newly-elected Maine State Representative, and as director of the Addiction Outreach Program, she also works closely with Chief Hasch, Lincoln Health Family Care Center, Maine Behavioral Health, The Coulombe Center for Health Improvement, Boothbay Region YMCA and the Mid Coast Addiction Resource Center.
If you or someone you know is living with a substance use disorder, you can reach out to the Boothbay Harbor Police Department at 633-5616 or Stover with the Addiction Outreach Program at 350-7477.
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185 Townsend Avenue
Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538
United States
