Over the GW Directed by Nick Gaglia, 2007

Critically acclaimed for performance and frankness, Over the GW tells writer/director Nick Gaglia’s own harrowing tale of drug rehabilitation in the late 90′s. The story follows troubled siblings (George Gallagher, Kether Donohue) as they are removed from their Bronx home and committed to a New Jersey treatment center by their well-meaning parents. As an expected 30 day stay stretches to two years, the siblings are systematically brainwashed into a state of abject fear by cult-like staff members. Resembling jail-time more then rehabilitation, the film, strikingly remarkable in its restraint, illustrates the gradual erosion of free will exposing physically and mentally abusive reprogramming masquerading as rehabilitation.