Looks Like Laury, Sounds Like Laury

On the first day of shooting the documentary, Laury Sacks the film’s subject faces the camera and squarely asks: “What do I hope for?” At the age of 45, Laury, an ebullient actress and the doting mother of two small children, had a reputation as the quickest wit in the room. At the age of 46, she began forgetting words. Soon she could barely speak. For one year, Hogan follows Laury in her long, inexorable descent to frontotemporal dementia, a little-understood disease that strikes people in the prime of life. It is the profoundly personal portrait of a woman who is facing the unthinkable and the impact her progressive disease has on loved ones.