Life Support

What is remarkable about "Life Support" is how it avoids every pitfall of the standard issue-based TV film and, indeed, of most TV films, period.

While the social work done by Life Support is exemplary, the production more than stands on its own as entertainment.

A richly drawn, unflinchingly real and quietly moving family drama.

This impressive fact-based debut from cultural journalist turned director Nelson George keeps us captivated simply by honing in tight on the character of its people, sketching in fine detail not just their admirable strengths but their all-too-human flaws.

Watching Latifah's performance is the single greatest pleasure of watching this 90-minute movie.

It’s a testament to George’s confident handling of the material... that while it touches on many elements of the national crisis... the project avoids feeling like a bulletin-board movie.

When this complex question about memory, identity, reality and generations of women supplies the suspense of the film, “Life Support” really gets good.