Spoiler Alert: The mother was trash....

"Her son is very lucky he got out from under her manipulations!"

To me that was one of the primary failures of the movie. The primary dramatic tension of the movie is built around the lead character getting back to New Jersey to do his intern interview, while at the same time dealing with his mother's bullshit.

I kept saying to my wife, he needs to walk away. Him spinning in circles about where to put his mother is a waste of time. The movies prologue had this none sense about how she stay clean for 6 years after that.

That is absurd considering that then entire situation with the lead driving to Ohio after his mother OD'ed right before his interview never happened.

For future reference - DON'T put the SPOILER in the title.
Instead, put it in the body - that way people can avoid it if they want.

The only explanation I could give for grandma to keep helping her trashy daughter is because she knew what her childhood was like.
I don't know, Mom was definitely loopy...blowing up like she did at times? But she also had a pretty rough upbringing...and at least for me personally, the older I get, the more of a hard time I have judging people too harshly. There's just so much trauma going around, and it definitely shapes a person, you know? Some of us just aren't as strong as others.

But yeah, that was exactly what that kid needed to do...get the hell out of dodge there.

From the outside its easy to judge. But when you are raised by a mentally ill person, and become an adult yourself, you can see why people keep trying to help the person out. But that was the message of the movie. Raising yourself out of the cycle of family trauma, and learning that no matter how much you love someone you have to let them help themselves at some point.