Michael Culkin

55 Steps is based on the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they're in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.

Student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) learns of the terrifying local legend of The Candyman a hooked serial killer who appears when you say his name in a mirror, five times.

Richard (Scott Chambers) 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, Polly (Morgan Watkins) needs to keep moving. When the land they live on is bought by a new landowner, their already precarious living conditions get even worse and Richards optimistic view on life becomes increasingly difficult to maintain.