Available on October 14th: «Jack Goes Home». Here is our review without spoilers!.

JGH redJack Thurlowe, a popular magazine editor living in Los Angeles, has to come back to his hometown to help her mother to heal after a car crash where also his father died. Soon after his arrival, his childhood friend Shanda tries to help Jack coping with his loss, since he is in an emotional block, even when he does not want to admit it, partly because he was very close to his dad, and also because he is very soon to be a father himself.

Just after a few hours of staying together we can see that the relationship between Jack and his mother, Teresa, has always been tense, and that the recent loss has left her with damages beyond the physical type, making Jack’s temperament and a repressed resentment from her to clash and create  a series of conflicts that become increasingly aggressive. The real problems however, start when in the middle of nightmares and hallucinations, Jack seems to be receiving messages from his deceased father, giving him hints that they might be secrets in his family that Jack never imagined, and that could make him question not only his apparently perfect life, but also his sanity.

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«Jack Goes Home» Reseña sin spoilers. Disponible el 14 de Octubre!

JGH redJack Thurlowe, el editor de una popular revista que reside en Los Angeles, tiene que regresar a su ciudad natal para ayudar a su madre a recuperarse después de haber sufrido un accidente automovilístico donde su padre falleció. Recién llegado a la casa de sus padres, su amiga de toda la vida Shanda, trata de ayudarle a Jack a lidiar con la perdida, ya que aunque él no lo quiere admitir, ha caído en una especie de bloqueo emocional, por su cercanía tan estrecha a su padre y porque también esta cercano a tener a su primer hijo.

A pocas horas de estar conviviendo, podemos ver que las relaciones entre Jack y Teresa, su madre, siempre han sido tensas y la perdida del padre la ha dejado con daños mas allá de lo físico, haciendo que tanto el temperamento de Jack como un resentimiento reprimido por parte de Teresa salgan a la luz y se den una serie de conflictos que van incrementando en agresividad, pero los verdaderos problemas comienzan cuando en medio de sueños y delirios, Jack empieza a recibir mensajes que podrían ser de su padre, dando pistas de que hay cosas en el pasado de su familia que Jack desconoce y que podrían hacerlo terminar cuestionando su vida completa e incluso su salud mental.

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