Looks Like Laury, Sounds Like Laury

America ReFramed Season 3
  • Feature Film
  • 2015
  • 66 Mins

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.

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Film Credits

  • Pamela Hogan Director, Co-Producer
  • Connie Shulman Co-Producer
  • Andrew Fredericks Co-Editor
  • Adrienne Haspel Co-Editor
  • Kat Patterson Cinematographer
  • Jeffery Kimball Executive Producer

Critical Acclaim

Poignant, intimate and moving… A very finely crafted piece of work. Laury's story needs to be told and seen by as wide an audience as possible.

Rodney Pearlman, Bluefield Project to Cure Frontotemporal Dementia

A moving, intimate look at one of the most terrifying and least understood disorders of the brain, fronto-temporal dementia. Laury's story is a powerful lesson in how to face adversity with dignity, humanity, love and compassion.

Dr. Daniel J. Levitin, McGill University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience