The Boy Who Cried Bitch: The Adolescent Years

Fifteen years after the strikingly titled THE BOY WHO CRIED BITCH (1991) — the story of an out-of-control 12-year-old and his increasingly desperate mother — crept briefly into theaters, screenwriter Catherine May Levin returned to the well of foulmouthed rage for this variation on the theme of bad parenting and its nightmarish consequences.

Once again, the focus is a fatherless family of four. Aspiring writer Adelle Truston (Ronnie Farer), the tremulous, self-centered product of a controlling and hugely wealthy mother (Diane Kagan), visits her oldest son, 16-year-old Steve (Adam LaVorgna, of TV's 7th Heaven) at the private mental institutio...