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6 Balloons
Directed by
Marja-Lewis Ryan
TV-MA
2018
75m
Drama
5.9
86%
56%
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A woman (Jacobson) learns her brother (Franco) has relapsed on heroin.
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Cast of 6 Balloons
Abbi Jacobson
Katie
Dave Franco
Seth
Charlotte Carel
Ella
Madeline Carel
Ella
Jane Kaczmarek
Gloria
Dawan Owens
Jack
Tim Matheson
Gary
Jen Tullock
Bianca
Maya Erskine
Cameron
Heidi Sulzman
Pharmacist
Tahmus Rounds
Dealer
Lisa Berman
Woman
Felicia Dupuch
Intake Nurse
Lindsey Haun
Meditation Podcast (voice)
Vesna Saal
Security Guard
Paul Krugman
Drug Dealer
6 Balloons Ratings & Reviews
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
Much like its frazzled protagonist, 6 Balloons has a strong sense of direction, but the film is too constricted to let go, embrace the detours, and allow life to takes it course.
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
At just over 70 minutes, Balloons feels more like a sketch or a character study than a fully realized film, but it's an affecting sketch nonetheless.
Next Projection
Derek Deskins
Were 6 Balloons to be nothing more than an actor's showcase, it would work, unfortunately the rest of its pieces just never quite come together.
AwardsCircuit.com
Christopher James
This heroin drama falls flat in execution. It's drama is overwrought, as it constantly tries to stay one step above a low grade Lifetime movie.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
A heartfelt, scary drama about what addiction does to the people around the addict.
Consequence
Caroline Siede
As a mood piece and character portrait, 6 Balloons is a strong debut for Ryan. But though it doesn't overstay its welcome, by the time the credits roll, 6 Balloons feels like it still has more to say.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
It's a compliment to first-time feature writer-director Marja-Lewis Ryan that we want more of what she has to offer.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
There is a sense that the picture ends just as it gets going. But it's a movie that understands co-dependency from the inside, as well as the helplessness and hopelessness of trying to cure someone else's addiction.
Variety
Joe Leydon
The movie leaves you with a deep respect for the willingness evidenced by Ryan and her collaborators to take several gambles that pay off dramatically and emotionally.
The Hollywood Reporter
Jon Frosch
What stays with you is [Abbi] Jacobson's grippingly understated lead turn, which promises a fruitful future screen life beyond Broad City.
Esquire Magazine
Olivia Ovenden
Franco and Jacobsen's on-screen relationship is utterly convincing not only in the forgiveness and sympathy we afford siblings but in showing how quickly we revert to the squabbling and resentments of childhood.
The Playlist
Jordan Ruimy
Shot in a near-claustrophobic handheld style, [Marja-Lewis] Ryan's film is a hell and back 24-hour journey across L.A. that is sometimes too hard to watch.
The Young Folks
AJ Caulfield
6 Balloons is moody and moving, yet frustrating and clumsy and sometimes too on-the-nose.
Den of Geek
David Crow
It's a brief portrait with a devastating subject, but it feels unfinished, relying too often on well-worn techniques to complete an intimate study that may have simply needed a second pass.
Birth.Movies.Death.
Jacob Knight
Though Katie's arc becomes fairly predictable by the last of 6 Balloons' breathless 74 minutes, the transparency of her character's development doesn't render it any less powerful.
Solzy at the Movies
Danielle Solzman
6 Balloons is a film that shows what a sibling is willing to give up in order to save the other sibling.
Decider
Lea Palmieri
Sure, it's not easy to watch, but maybe that's exactly why you should.
Hammer to Nail
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
A gripping sibling drama ... 6 Balloons carries us to a very dark place before bursting in a beautiful final catharsis of relief and release.
Film Inquiry
Hazem Fahmy
It's always refreshing to see a take on a social epidemic that doesn't wallow in clichés of suffering, but rather examines the humanity underneath it all.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
"6 Balloons" is wrenching stuff, but it offers points of behavioral illumination to enhance the viewing experience, and there's Franco doing his best work to date.
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