Red Rock Film Festival 2008

Beach Access focuses an unblinking eye on a caregiver whose wife is suffering from a mental illness. Stan takes his agoraphobic wife, Mary, to their special beach, hoping it will help her take a small step toward recovery. If she can just get out of the car, Stan will have the glimmer of hope that he desperately needs to hang on. Stan is worn, broken by four years of caring for someone who looks like the woman he loves, but just isn't Mary. She is caught in the grip of the disease and resistant to therapy. Stan has become her crutch‚ - she is helpless without him. This is the moment when Stan realizes that he just can‚'t go on.