Producer Lauren Miller Rogen and director Leah Nelson on adapting Sarah Leavitt's graphic novel for the screen.
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Chad Salvador/Variety “Tangles,” a new black-and-white animated film about a 20-something illustrator named Sarah who is dealing with her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease, was all too real for its producers, Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen. The couple started dating more than two decades ago, as Miller Rogen’s mother, Adele, was showing the first signs of the illness she would suffer from for the final 16 years of her life.
“There were so many similarities between my family and Sarah’s family,” Miller Rogen says as she sits in a suite at the Majestic Hotel the day before the film debuts at Cannes. “Our moms were both teachers who were diagnosed in their early 50s. I related to the denial, fear and sense of aloneness that can come with a dementia diagnosis.”
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