Krisha (2015) review

Krisha (Krisha Fairchild) goes to visit her loved ones, which includes her sister Robyn (Robyn Fairchild), brother-in-law Doyle (Bill Wise) and son Trey (Shults), over the Thanksgiving holiday after having been ostracized for a while because she has a problem with pills and booze, but her nerves are fragile and she starts using again, drops the turkey and has an emotional breakdown.  For his debut feature film - which was "expanded" from a short - Shults was lucky enough to be able to use actual family members in the cast and his mother's house in Houston as its sole location, except its treatment of addiction is more "showy" than anything, the random noises on the soundtrack are exceptionally irritating and the whole "self-pitying" tone is hard to take.  In many large families there is usually someone that struggles with drugs and/or alcohol (one of my own relatives sadly drank himself to death) so it's certainly topical for the times we're living in, but a deeper exploration of its subject's woes would have helped (plus, what's with her missing index finger? and who is Richard?).