User:MichaelQSchmidt/workspace/Aaron Bacon (film)


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Aaron Bacon, is a 2009 short drama film written and directed by Nick Gaglia, inspired by the Maia Szalavitz book Help at Any Cost, and based upon the true story of 16-year-old Aaron Bacon's death as a result of malpractice and abuse in a tough love wilderness drug treatment facility.

Background
Galia wrote the film's screenplay after reading Help at Any Cost. He learned how Aaron Bacon endured enduring 30 days of physical and psychological abuse, starvation, and maltreatment before dying, and felt he needed to give Aaron a voice.

Partial cast

 * Stephen Michael Kane as Aaron
 * George Gallagher as Peter
 * Kether Donahue as Carrie
 * Joey Reynolds as Ted
 * Daniel Evans as Gumby
 * Jennifer Dorr White as Sally
 * Denny Bess as Ike
 * Dennis Gagomiros as Bob
 * Donald Pritt as Chris
 * G.R. Johnson as Dr. Robins

Reception
When Fox News covered the Scottsdale, Arizona premiere, they called Aaron Bacon "A Powerful Film!"

Release
The film had its world premiere on June 14, 2009 at the Shanghai International Film Festival, and its American debut in Los Angeles, California on August 28, 2009, followed by the Vermont International Film Festival on October 23, 2009.

Additional reading

 * 'Boot Camps: Children's Gulags or Child Abuse for Fun and Profit, by A. Orange
 * Loving Them to Death by Jon Krakauer, Outside