Garrett Hedlund slogs through what feels like the most eventful day in the history of cinema in the mawkish family drama Lullaby.
Hedlund leads a strong cast that mostly goes to waste in artist-turned-writer-director Andrew Levitas’ film about a wealthy clan coming together to witness the patriarch’s wish to die after a 12-year battle with cancer. Levitas tale is earnest and clearly very personal, inspired as it was by events within his own family. The subject of assisted suicide is certainly a polarizing one, and in theory a film like Lullaby should both enlighten and inspire debate. Instead, it feels simultaneously superficial and overbearing, albeit with a few moments that do indeed resonate.
By Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
February 4, 2021
Photos courtesy Steward Health Care
Nearly ten months after Dorchester’s Carney Hospital was designated as the nation’s first Covid specialty hospital, the facility appears to have surmounted the hump of the crisis. Fewer than 20 Covid patients remain in the hospital’s ICU unit, according to hospital officials last week, and at this point, the Carney is serving more non-Covid patients than those with the coronavirus.
The hospital’s future role in administering vaccines to the general public is “yet to be determined,” according to hospital leaders who spoke to the Reporter this week last week. More than 1,500 healthcare workers, emergency responders, and other Covid-treating staff, including the vast majority of workers on site, have been vaccinated on the Carney campus to date.