Project Title

Perkins is Perfect: A Short Film Script

Presenters

Maura MayFollow

Academic department under which the project should be listed

RCHSS - English

Research Mentor Name

Anna Weinstein

Abstract (300 words maximum)

This short film script follows Christine Perkins, an upper-middle-class mother and PTA president, on the day of her 10th wedding anniversary. Everything's perfect on the surface, but violent intrusive thought threatens her marriage and family--Christine has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), in such a way that is not about the cleanliness and physical perfection most people think it to be. The script intends to represent her experience, one that many people share, with exacted tension and raw honesty and resolve with both realism and compassion--not an absence of the condition, but a way to live with it.

Disciplines

Screenwriting

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Perkins is Perfect: A Short Film Script

This short film script follows Christine Perkins, an upper-middle-class mother and PTA president, on the day of her 10th wedding anniversary. Everything's perfect on the surface, but violent intrusive thought threatens her marriage and family--Christine has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), in such a way that is not about the cleanliness and physical perfection most people think it to be. The script intends to represent her experience, one that many people share, with exacted tension and raw honesty and resolve with both realism and compassion--not an absence of the condition, but a way to live with it.