The Midway Point
The Midway Point
Actors: Sean Ryan Fox, Catharine Daddario, Julie Benz, Thors Birch and Wes Studi
Director/Scriptwriter: Lucca Vieira
Composer: Daniel Figueiredo
Cinematographer: Noah Luke
Stone Horus Media/Hillin Enterprise
Running Length: 90 minutes
No rating, but could be PG 13
The storyline for “The Midway Point” is about two people, a young man and a young woman, who have distinct patterns to their lives. Their paths meet and gradually, a truce is there between autism and temper control. Director/Scriptwriter Lucca Vieira, writes for two actors and they do a wonderful job of opposites-attract. Sean Ryan Fox has the autistic personality while Catherine Daddario can’t control her emotions. Somehow, the ability to see past this results in friendship. The audience can sit back and watch this unfold.
As the story goes, Jakc (Sean Ryan Fox) is barely making it through high school. Though he is fond of movies and camera work, he keeps to himself and school-day-by-day is a chore. Enter Alice (Catherine Daddario) who begins to talk to Jake and tries to introduce him to various adventures, such as cutting classes. Eventually, they are working on a school project, but Jake still has classroom problems and the teacher (Wes Studi0 tries to help Jake. The teacher sees potential there. As the end of the school year is slowly approaching, what to do?
The casting for “The Midway Point” is good. Sean Ryan Fox gives the audience a young man who is trying to fit into a society that either teases his approach to life or somewhat accepts him. There is no middle road. Catherina Daddario is on the opposite side of the fence, with a temper that is fast to ignite and she seems to have fearless energy. This may frighten some students away from her. As one of Sean’s instructors, Wes Studi gives us a patient man who has seen this before and gently works to help Sean with important decisions. The rest of the cast is in the background.
With the aid of Composer Daniel Figueiredo’s background, music provides a steady, quiet beat, to the actors. Noah Luke’s cinematography has colorful settings to the actors as they go from one emotional event to another. The audience is seeing the upheaval of teen life.
“The Midway Point” is, indeed, just that. A reachable place where lifelong decisions are beginning to be made. You don’t want to slip back into the past, but the future looks frightening, too. Can Jake enter college away from home and be in the movie business? Can Alice go to a prestigious school in New York and study art? Lifelong decisions are to be made, as with all teens, and the audience can see with Jake and Alice, there can be hope.
Copyright 2026 Marie Asner
