An everyday Southern New Jersey family faces the usual concerns: despair, suicide attempts, manic depression, schizophrenia and secret societies trying to ruin their lives. A Southern New Jersey "Grey Gardens."
"Cheeks" focuses on the psyche troubles of a southern New Jersey family, that from the outside appears to be a completely normal. The film elegantly unveils the complex and disturbed family dynamics of a paranoid schizophrenic father, a manic-depressive mother in relation to dysfunctional relationships, religion, music, suicide attempts," secret societies" and their only son who wants out.—Tal Sharon
