Too Much, Too Soon

Docudrama on Diana Barrymore covering her life from her mid teens to middle age. She arguably best known as the daughter of legendary actor John Barrymore who was as well known for his drunken behavior later in his life affecting it in its entirety, the story largely deals with the relationship between daughter and father, including she not having seen or heard from him in ten years following her parents' divorce when she was a child. After reconnecting with him when she is a teenager on her initiative in wanting to know her famous father and for him to love her, she discovers that he has no real emotional space in his life for her in he dealing with his own demons exacerbated by that alcoholism. Partly in an effort to be closer to him, she ventures into acting, although she, not very good at it, may or may not be aware that any acting job she gets is solely for the producers to capitalize on the Barrymore name. She eventually further follows her father's footsteps in self-destructive behavior of drinking in a quest for love, she, as a result, not showing up for acting jobs and going in and out of one troubled relationship and marriage after another. The question then becomes if there is anything that can get her out of the same fate as her father of a premature death from alcohol abuse.