The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

The film "The Death & Life of John F. Donovan" (2018) tells the story of a young actor who reminisces about his written correspondence with an American TV star, John F. Donovan, who died from a drug overdose. The film interweaves three sequences: one set in 2017 where the actor interviews Rupert Turner, another child who idolized Donovan and had a complicated relationship with his mother, and two earlier sequences depicting the lives of both characters in the mid-2000s. Jacob Tremblay plays Rupert Turner, Kit Harington portrays John F. Donovan, while Natalie Portman stars as Sam Turner, Rupert's mother.