Film Review – Tammy’s Always Dying

After building her resume with short films, actress Amy Jo Johnson makes her feature-length directing debut with “Tammy’s Always Dying.” While a working actor for nearly three decades, Johnson will be forever known as The Pink Ranger in “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,” delighting young audiences with her youthful spark and ability to sell complete weirdness with a straight face. And now she’s an accomplished moviemaker, taking command of Joanne Sarazen’s intensely introspective screenplay, capturing the material’s dire examples of mental instability while mastering an unusual sense of hope in the making. “Tammy’s Always Dying” has all the ingredients of a grungy indie production, but Johnson makes it all feel human, taking care of her characters and extracting wonderful performances as she shapes an atypical mother/daughter tale. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com