(Michelle Cody White and Randall White in SPYRAL)
(Info from press release)
Randall White and Michelle Cody White once embarked on what was to be a lifetime together rich in adventure, family experience, and happiness. Randy, a rising rock & roll star from a loving military family from Alaska, and Michelle, a nurse who’d escaped a tough, drug- fueled home in small-town Indiana, exhaustively documented their lives in intimate home video and mobile phone footage. Randy and Michelle meet and quickly fall in love, but on the first day they're together, Michelle warns Randy: "I come from a crazy family."
That hairline crack yawns wider and wider as the relationship progresses and Michelle and Randy have a daughter, Charlotte. Michelle slowly, inexorably descends into a cycle of mental illness and drug abuse that transforms her from a loving mother and skilled medical professional into a destructive, violent stranger. Randy’s once cheerful and exuberant filming instead chronicles his increasingly desperate attempt to save his marriage, his family and ultimately, Michelle’s life.
Voice talent Michelle Trachtenberg (as Michelle Cody White) doesn’t merely voice-over; she disappears into Michelle’s character and personality and speaks for her directly to the audience. Trachtenberg is known for her starring roles in television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000–03) and Gossip Girl (2007–2012), and in the films HARRIET THE SPY (1996); INSPECTOR GADGET (1999); EUROTRIP (2004); ICE PRINCESS (2005); BLACK CHRISTMAS (2006); and 17 AGAIN (2009).
A real-life horror film shot entirely on home video and mobile phone cameras, SPYRAL is so raw and immediate as to be nearly unprecedented: a dramatic and powerful view of the toll that mental illness takes on one woman's life and her family.
Director: Bill Guttentag
Voice Over by: Michelle Trachtenberg
SPYRAL
World Premieres at the TCL Chinese Theatre for Dances With Films on June 29
