7/10
Coping With Stress
11 June 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I saw Mending the Line, starring Brian Cox-Succession_tv, the Bourne Identity movies; Sinqua Walls-Power_tv, Teen Wolf_tv; Perry Mattfeld-In the Dark_tv, Shameless_tv and Patricia Heaton-The Middle_tv, Space Jam.

This is a movie about people coping with loss. Sinqua plays a Marine veteran that is sent home to Montana after being wounded in Afghanistan. He was the sole survivor of his unit-he has wounds to his legs but not life threatening-and he has lots of survivors guilt. Patricia is the V. A. doctor in charge of his recovery, both physically and mentally and she sends him to Brian-a Vietnam vet-that practices flyfishing to deal with his stress. Since the V. A. is in Montana, the fishing is quite plentiful. Perry plays a librarian that helps Sinqua find some reading material on his new fishing hobby therapy. Everyone seems to have some issues to deal with; some are with the obvious PTSD and drinking-Brian & Sinqua-but Perry lost her fiance recently in a car accident so she is dealing with that loss. FYI: Mending the line is a fishing term.

It's rated R for language and violent images and has a running time of 2 hours & 2 minutes.

It's not one that I would buy on DVD but if you are interested in the subject matter, it would be a good one to stream.
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