Hollywood, CA (The Hollywood Times) 6/27/26 – Spoiler Alert: The following discussion reveals the key emotional turning point in Still Mine.
In the opening of Still Mine, a woman knocks on her happily married ex’s door to make sense of a life altering choice they made while she was living with a chronic illness.
The film stars Amanda Blake Davis and Tommy Dewey (The Mindy Project, Murdaugh: Death in the Family) and is produced by Shannon Green, Haaga and Davis.
As a viewer, I found the six-minute vignette dramatic and emotionally intense. It piqued my curiosity. At first, I thought it was about unresolved issues from the past finding their way into the present. But that wasn’t the story. I could feel the emotions shift in the actors’ body language as they moved from the front door to a more private space, away from the sounds of the dinner party inside.
They clearly cared for one another because of their shared history. Yet neither seemed interested in disrupting the other’s present. Instead, the film became a quiet moment of revelation, spoken and heard. A deeply human moment.
The revelation that Amanda Blake Davis’s character lost the opportunity to have a child because of a fifteen-year misdiagnosis reframed everything that came before it. The tragedy wasn’t only that a diagnosis was wrong. It was that an entirely different life might have unfolded had the truth been known sooner. A family that never existed. A relationship forever altered. Years of living according to a reality that wasn’t real.
Whether or not I uncovered every layer of Still Mine, I couldn’t help but think beyond the film itself. If artists devote their time, talent, and resources to telling stories rooted in the human experience, then perhaps this kind of tragedy occurs more often than many of us realize.
A misdiagnosis doesn’t simply change a medical chart. It can sideline entire lives, altering relationships, dreams, and futures in ways that can never be fully recovered. If Still Mine is, in part, asking us to recognize those unseen consequences, then its point was heard. It certainly prompted me to think differently about the people whose lives may have quietly taken a different path because the truth arrived too late.
Amanda Blake Davis is an actress and writer living in Los Angeles. She is from Auburn, Massachusetts and a graduate of Providence College. She performed at The Second City in Chicago, where she wrote and starred in five revues on the etc stage. She won a Jeff Award for Best Actress in a Revue for Studs Terkel’s Not Working. She has been seen on Work In Progress and Night Court.
She has written for Wabbit! on Cartoon Network and Showtime’s Work in Progress. And in 2015 she and her writing partner sold their pilot Taught to Indigenous Media.
She performs regularly in the LA improv scene with her team Heyday. And has been seen at the Hollywood Fringe in Three Guys, One Groupon, The Planet Earth Farewell Concert and Family Fries.
Amanda was thrilled to write, act and executive produce Still Mine. She is represented commercially by Reign Agency and Managed by Puddle Management.
Blythe Haaga is a director and producer known for her work on Showtime’s critically acclaimed comedy, Work in Progress. She is the director of the forthcoming feature film What May Be, starring Tony winner Nikki M. James, Rob Heaps and three-time Academy Award Nominee Debra Winger. Blythe produced and directed Bobby Bones’ hour-long comedy special on CMT and has directed pilot presentations for The Second City and TruTV. Previously, she was a fellow in the MGM Digital Writers Workshop and the Indigenous Media incubator Project: Her. In a past life, she produced the NPR podcast How To Do Everything. Blythe serves on the board of StoryCorps and advisory council for LAist.
Still Mine screened at Dances with Films LA as part of the Unleashed Shorts Block, Friday, June 26th at the TCL Chinese
