Running from Crazy

Mariel Hemingway is an actress and model. She is the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway. Her family carries a heavy history. There has been more than one suicide in it. Ernest Hemingway is one of them. So is Mariel’s older sister Margaux. Margaux died in 1996. There is mental illness in the family as well. Depression and bipolar disorder are talked about. Mariel is trying to understand it. She looks back over her own past. There is another older sister, Joan. The documentary holds the three sisters together. Older footage is used as well. It screened at Sundance in 2013. Dree Hemingway also appears in the hundred and five minute film, an American production Barbara Kopple finished in 2013.