THE MULBERRY TREE
PACIFIC NW PREMIERE
Filmmakers Russell Gray & Mike DeLiso in attendance

Directed by Mark Heller
United States, 88 minutes
Drama
SAT OCT 15 @ 8:00PM | Salem Cinema
TUES OCT 18 @ 7:00PM | High Street

The Mulberry Tree tells the story of Mickey Loren who is serving out his last month of parole for his part in a tragic accident by changing bedpans at a hospital. He is stuck living at home with his passive mother and belligerent prison guard father and finds his court ordered community service and a creative writing class at the local college to be his only escape from his troubling past. An assigned project to write about someone he doesn’t know leads him to Samuel Freeman (Joe Morton), a quietly stoic patient convicted of murder, dying of AIDS and living out his remaining days on death watch. Mickey and Sam forge an unlikely friendship, having stumbled upon the crossroads of their faltering lives, yet somehow, amongst the painful and dysfunctional damage both have created and encountered in their lives, they find that there is always hope for personal redemption. The Mulberry Tree is an intense and exhilarating film about forgiveness, atonement and grasping for a second chance.

Filmography: The Passage (07), Star Crossed (09).