‘No Letting Go’: Holding on Together Through the Storm

A family struggles with a child’s mental illness in this film filled with hope.

Tim (Noah Silverman), 14-years-old, feels misunderstood, in “No Letting Go” GJW+

TV-PG | 1h 44m | Drama | 2016

Once considered taboo territory, mental illness was long kept at the fringes of both daily conversation and cinematic storytelling. When it did appear onscreen, it often arrived cloaked in stereotypes: Patients painted as outcasts, villains, or tragic figures to be feared or forgotten. The film world, ever a mirror of society’s comfort zones, hesitated to look deeper.