Waiting for Bojangles

A young boy recounts his eccentric childhood with parents who live life as a perpetual party, dancing to Nina Simone's 'Mr. Bojangles' and keeping an exotic bird as a pet. Their joyful, unconventional existence is shadowed by his mother's escalating mental illness, which his father tries to manage with boundless love and increasingly elaborate schemes. This heartwarming yet melancholic tale explores the lengths a family will go to preserve happiness in the face of hardship.