2024 Digital Program - Flipbook - Page 15
I’ll Be There
When heroes fall, families rise. Journey
into Grace’s world as her blended
family navigates life against the
surreal backdrop of a childhood
hero’s death.
As the youngest of five children,
Grace’s blended family was never
easy to explain to her friends. As soon
as graduation came around, she left
the confusion and rawness of her
home life behind. When the film finds
her more than a decade later, she has
built a new life for herself in Los
Angeles and cemented her place as
the outsider of the family. But her new
life is upended when she learns that her older brother AJ has
cancer and her now estranged family comes to town to support
him. The film is set during the days after Michael Jackson’s death in
the Los Angeles hospital that is next door to the L.A. Coroner’s
Office, where the King of Pop was autopsied. As we unravel the
family’s traumatic past, the pivotal role AJ played as Grace’s
protector, and the chasm that now exists between them as adults,
Grace comes to terms with the ghosts of her past and her former
role as the family’s “Golden Child.” Michael Jackson played an
important role in the siblings' childhoods and the irony of the timing
isn’t lost on Grace. As she tries to reconcile her complicated
relationships with her siblings, she’s also saying goodbye to the
icon who was the soundtrack to that chapter of her life.
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