LIFE BOAT by Lorraine Nicholson

Directed by Lorraine Nicholson · Starring Stephen Dorff, Elizabeth Gilpin, B.K. Cannon, Chloe Bridges · 2017

At a therapeutic boarding school, a counselor leads six troubled teenagers through a high-stakes survival role-play that blurs the line between tough love and abuse.

Stephen Dorff is unnervingly magnetic in an uncomfortable, gripping look at the real-life troubled-teen industry.

A gripping & uncomfortable film based on real-life “therapeutic boarding schools”. The line between abuse & tough love is blurred when a counselor (Stephen Dorff) leads six teenagers in an intriguing game of survival.

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