![]() Theaters in North Carolina remained closed under Gov. But its release comes with a big asterisk – most theaters across the country have yet to reopen. ![]() When it opens this Friday, “Words on Bathroom Walls” will become one of the first new movies to hit theaters since the pandemic began. Similarly, the film about Adam’s story, which opens in theaters Friday more than two years after shooting in Wilmington, is also facing an invisible and formidable foe – COVID-19. These are all battles waged in Adam’s head, invisible to everyone around him. ![]() Then, like any teenager, there’s the typical internalized pressure not to make a fool of himself in front of the effortlessly cool classmate he’s crushing on. ![]() There’s also the matter of the malevolent voice that hides in the shadows and clips away at his resolve to be more than his diagnosis. He wakes up every day to the hallucinatory symptoms of his illness, which have manifested three wildly divergent personalities that act as his spiritual guides of a sort. WILMINGTON – In one crucial way, the new film “Words on Bathroom Walls” is a lot like its central character Adam, a teenager recently diagnosed with schizophrenia. ![]()
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