TIFF19 film review: Felicity Huffman in 'Tammy's Always Dying'
Kathy McDonald is a bartender in a small industrial Canadian town, but her real job is cleaning up the messes that Tammy , her alcoholic mother with narcissistic tendencies, routinely makes.
The film chronicles Kathy’s gradual awakening to the fact that her relationship with her mother isn’t healthy, and that even though emotional abuse doesn’t leave physical bruises, it is still abuse. The promise of the first third of the movie is felt in how its two leads nail their acerbic interplay from the opening scene, along with a strong sense of place; the setting is a town that looks as worn-out as the bond at the film's center.
mines personal tragedies for ratings and coaches its guests to exaggerate in their retelling of the toxic relationships that have injured them for entertainment value. We see Kathy watching the show throughout the movie, and after her mother’s cancer treatment starts working despite an initial prognosis of imminent death, Kathy tells the show’s producers that her mother committed suicide and she wants to tell her story.
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