Both cautionary tale and rallying cry, Shouting Down Midnight recounts how the Wendy Davis filibuster of 2013 galvanized a new generation of activists and reveals what is at stake for us all in the struggle for reproductive freedom.
Faye, a pensive young woman, joins a regency style picnic with her close friends, Mara and Esther. There they talk about expectations of family in the context of the regency period, interjecting with their own familial experiences. They embark on a journey to break from expectations where Faye learns to embrace herself.
Dr. John Spooks (a puppet) returns home to discover that his lovely wife, Karen (also a puppet), has been brutally attacked. The film savors the couple's final moment together while inviting the audience to surmise the inescapable and unsavory past that brought John and Karen to this point. LIABILITY is an existential, absurdist joy ride that gleefully tests the audience's ability to suspend disbelief effectively. The result is part satire of the crimes-of-passion genre and homage to the banality of movie-making tropes of decades past.
