Waking Madison
Waking Madison, (originally titled Mad World), is an independent drama/thriller film written and directed by Katherine Brooks and starring Sarah Roemer and Elisabeth Shue.
The film was screened for the first time at the Newport Beach Film Festival, in Costa Mesa, California, on May 2, 2011. The film was released straight-to-DVD on July 12, 2011.
Plot
There are a lot of time changes.
Madison (Sarah Roemer) lives in New Orleans. Suicidal and desperate, she meets with Dr. Elizabeth Barnes who videotapes each patient’s interviews.
Dr. Barnes interviews Madison who confides that there’s a little girl who she isn’t allowed to talk about, that someone will get mad and try to hurt her if she does. Dr. Barnes isn’t sure whom she’s referring to.
Dr. Barnes interviews Alexis who says that her priest touched her, but her mother didn’t believe her. She wore a thorny crown on her head, slit her wrists and feet and said she tried to look like Jesus.
Dr. Barnes interviews Grace who claims she was raped when she was 13 and the man killed himself. She tried to have an abortion when she was pregnant at 16, but had no money, the guy she got to do it messed up and now she is unable to have kids.