"Delirium"

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With talk of the recent rise in suicides and nightly reports and daily articles on the fight against mental disorders, its a wonder that anyone stays sane anymore. Most of us navigate through life with medication and occasional therapy, others need extensive help and often get it too late. Though for those who do get help and are sent back out into the world to navigate it as best as they can, the world can come off frightening and you often wonder if things are really happening, or if you should question your own sanity.

Tom ("That 70's Show" Topher Grace) has spent the last twenty years since he was a teenager in an institute working out psychological demons that are linked to a dark past. He learns that days before his release that his father (Robin Thomas Grossman) wealthy political figure committed suicide and has left Tom's childhood home, a mansion to him since his mother (Daisy McCrackin) left when he was fifteen and his brother is in prison.
Under a strict house arrest for the next thirty days, Tom must live alone with frequent visits from his hard nosed parole officer Brody (Patricia Clarkson) if he hopes to make this work. Yet from the beginning, things occur that make Tom question if he can even make it to day thirty with a strange number that keeps calling with the sound of heavy breathing and frightening visions of his late father and noises in the night he can't explain. Even with the newfound friendship of market delivery girl Lynn (Genesis Rodriguez) he can't shake the fear that his unstable mind is trying to get the best of him and when his brother Alex (Callan Mulvey) suddenly appears he is more uncertain than ever if his mind is now lost to his delusions. Tom must use every all of his strength to come to terms with his past and fight to regain his grasp on reality to find the truth if he hopes to have a future.

Chilling and a gripping suspense. Topher Grace's performance was one of the best I've seen in years since his portrayal as Venom in "Spiderman 3". The uncertainty this story gives its audience as to what is real and what is a hallucination keeps you guessing until the final moments with an unforeseen plot twist that will leave you in disbelief. A five G.M.Star performance that is sure to leave the audience reeling as to what just happened and make them question their own sanity.

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 "Delirium" is currently available for rent at Redbox and for purchase where movies are sold.

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