A DANGEROUS Son
A DANGEROUS Son
Currently Streaming on HBO and HBO GO
Currently Streaming on HBO and HBO GO
Warning: Adult Supervision: Language, mild-violence, adult situations and images
A Dangerous Son
Suggested age 15+
From the Film Site: One in 10 American children suffer from serious emotional disturbance and more than 17 million have experienced a psychiatric disorder. A Dangerous Son focuses on three families in crisis, each struggling with a child’s severe mental illness while desperately seeking treatment in the face of limited resources and support; exposing cracks in a system that fails too many families, with potentially devastating consequences for the child or for others. The film is directed by Liz Garbus (Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper, There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane).
From Commonsense Media: A Dangerous Son is an intense documentary about three families with sons who have severe psychiatric disorders. These conditions often cause them to exhibit very aggressive behaviors, and it's clear that the mental healthcare system isn't equipped to treat them successfully. This brutally honest doc is sometimes hard to watch; there are some disturbing sequences showing one of the boys hitting his mother and younger sister and some rough language as his anger manifests in verbal outbursts.
(Suggested Audiences: Educators, Parents, Social Workers, Counselors, Students)