Bridges

After learning he has terminal cancer, a single father takes his teenage daughter on a cross-country tour of famous bridges, and she discovers many secrets from both the present and his past.

GENRE: Drama. Road Movie.

When engineer and bridge enthusiast John Grey is diagnosed with cancer, he sells his possessions, leases a motor home, and pressures his daughter, Sheri, into a cross country trip enroute to her freshman year of college.

Along the way, John re-connects with three former players in a band he left after a car accident nearly killed Sheri and promulgated her parent’s divorce.

The road trip is a process of healing, discovery and acceptance for John, but it creates considerable conflict with Sheri who discovers many details of her dad’s past and his plan to avoid a painful death. John’s backstory becomes a vehicle for offering Sheri a vital life-lesson enabling her to mend a burned bridge of her own.

Bridges is a metaphorical tale of the healing process, the stages of grief, and the importance of love to the human heart.

COVERAGE:

“Bridges is a dramatic, character-driven journey of self-discovery. The plotline is simple and straightforward…. The unique hook is a tour of bridges. The idea of bridges is clever and engaging because it’s very symbolic and conveys the theme. It’s about building new bridges or connections, and it’s also about mending old fences or bridges before going over the last one.”

“The story is also told with heart. It’s not just about the father healing old wounds and confronting his fears, it’s also about his daughter learning to confront her fears and her old emotional scars.”

“The premise is highly appealing.”

“A devastating, enlightening drama.”

“A really touching story.”