Captain Fantastic

Captain Fantastic explores what it means to be a father, and in an unconventional way. Ben Cash, played by Viggo Mortensen, is raising his six children with rigorous academic and physical standards, completely off the grid in the Pacific Northwest in response to his wife's bipolar disorder. When Cash learns that his institutionalized wife and the mother of his children has committed suicide, he has to leave the comfort of his carefully created life to attend her funeral in New Mexico. Along the way he is confronted with the stark realization that the world he had created for his children may not be the safe haven he had imagined. His loved ones, including his children, also begin to question his decisions, calling in to question all that he had believed.