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Greenwich Entertainment has released a trailer for the upcoming New Zealand drama Juniper. The film revolves around a self-destructive teenager who is suspended from school and asked to take care of his feisty alcoholic grandmother as punishment. As he takes care of her and they spend time together, he begins to turn her life around.

Here is the synopsis:

Since the death of his mother, Sam (George Ferri) has been in a self-destructive spiral that could lead to his death. Sam wasn’t with her mother when she died and she has felt ashamed of it ever since. In fact, he is planning to take his own life. Until he comes home from boarding school to find his wheelchair-bound English grandmother, Ruth (Charlotte Rampling), he moved. Ruth is a former war photographer with a lust for life and a love of the bottle. Sam soon finds himself deeply confronted with her alcoholic spirit and her chutzpah. Their first meeting is awkward; their violent second. Things get worse when Sam finds himself stranded alone with her and Nurse Sarah for the school holidays, an interruption that messes up Sam’s plans to take her life. A battle for supremacy ensues, which Ruth ultimately wins when she drinks Sam under the table. Sam puts her plans on hold and begins to find inspiration and meaning in her grandmother’s lust for life and her photos as a war photographer.

Juniper is both written and directed by Matthew J. Saville, who is making his feature film directorial debut. It will be released in select US theaters on February 24, 2023.