Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence stars as a veteran who returns home suffering from PTSD as well as a traumatic brain injury in Apple Original Films and A24’s Causeway. The trailer shows Lawrence’s character struggling to make it through dark days while recovering from an IED explosion.
The film also stars Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta, If Beale Street Could Talk), Jayne Houdyshell (Only Murders in the Building), Linda Emond (The Patient), and Stephen McKinley Henderson (Dune). Lila Neugebauer (The Last Thing He Told Me) directed from a screenplay by Ottessa Moshfegh, Luke Goebel, and Elizabeth Sanders.
Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi produced. Lila Neugebauer, Jacob Jaffke, Sophia Lin, Patricia Clarkson, Kirk Michael Fellows, and Christopher J. Surgent executive produced.
Causeway will open in select theaters and on Apple TV+ on November 4, 2022.
The Plot:
In Causeway, the new drama directed by Lila Neugebauer, Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence plays Lynsey, a military engineer who has returned to the States from Afghanistan with a debilitating brain injury after an IED explosion.
It’s a painful and slow recovery as she relearns to walk and re-trains her memory, aided by a chatty but tender caretaker (Houdyshell). But when she returns home to New Orleans she has to face memories even more aching and formative than those she had in service: a reckoning with her childhood.
Staying with her mother (Emond), with whom she shares a tense relationship, all Lynsey wants to do is return to her work as an engineer. Her doctor (Henderson) is wary, and so in the meantime, she gets a job cleaning pools. When her truck breaks down she meets James Aucoin (Henry), who works at the auto repair shop and offers her a ride home. Slowly they start to rely on each other for company and solace. James, it turns out, is also suppressing his own past trauma.
These two damaged souls’ budding friendship forms the center and the heart of Neugebauer’s debut feature — a quiet but devastating, and ultimately uplifting, story about coming to terms and moving forward.
