Review 676: Causeway

 

Lynsey, a soldier returns to her home in New Orleans from Afghanistan, where an IED caused her to suffer a severe brain injury. As she improves with rehabilitation, she forms an unlikely friendship with James (Brian Tyree Henry) an auto mechanic, who also has physical and mental trauma.

It gets a lot of milage out of its 92 minute runtime 

Theatre Lila Neugebauer makes an impressive directional debut the score by Alex Somers is 

Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry are terrific together; they have such a warm and gentle screen presence and onscreen chemistry and they bring the right amount of nuance and sensitivity to their roles.

Linda Emond is also  playing Gloria, Lynsey’s mother.