How do you live while your brother is dying? 'Suncoast' is a teen take on hospice
As a teenager, Laura Chinn was in the room as her older brother died from brain cancer. It was the same Florida hospice where Terri Schiavo received care. The experience inspired Chinn's new film.
A new film streaming on Hulu considers a subject that's sometimes in the news, but not often in entertainment: hospice end-of-life care. Suncoast is writer-director Laura Chinn's fictional account of her life in the early 2000s as a Florida teen with a severely ill older brother.
Chinn's brother had brain cancer – by the end he was unable to see, hear, or walk. He was "losing his ability to just mentally process any kind of conversation," she recalls, "so I knew his
