Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, this documentary takes an unblinking look at every parent’s worst nightmare: a child’s suicide. Filmmaker Dana Perry and her husband, Hart, tell the heartbreaking story of their own son, Evan Scott Perry, who ended his lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder at age 15 by jumping out a window. Intimate home movies paint a portrait of a troubled young man and his conscientious parents, who did everything they could to
keep him from following in the footsteps of an uncle who had committed suicide in 1971. Yet despite therapy, medication, and other efforts, they were unable to avert a tragedy. Monday, Aug. 3, at 9 p.m., HBO
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