My Brilliant Life

My Brilliant Life

The Youngest Parents With The Oldest Child.

2014117 min7.4 / 10

A deeply tender, melancholic family drama about young parents navigating love and loss as their son with progeria approaches the end of his accelerated life.

A couple of teenagers have a son who suffers from progeria, a rare genetic disorder which makes one age exponentially faster than normal. 16 years later, the child has the body of an 80 year old in the final days of his life writing a book about his parents' love story.

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