Group

It's usually a bad sign when directors abandon their scripts and go where the moment takes them, but Olympia, Wash., based filmmakers Anne de Marcken and Marilyn Freeman did just that and it's what makes their project so interesting. Their original idea was to write a film capturing the experiences of eight very different women undergoing 21 weeks of group therapy. But after a series of false starts, de Marcken and Freeman came up with a better plan: work with the actors to develop nine characters and their general story arcs, then set them loose in a group situation with cameras rolling. The finished product lies somewhere between documentary and fiction; the charac...