VIDEO: First Look - Jennifer Hudson Stars in Lifetime's Original Movie CALL ME CRAZY

Jennifer Hudson will star in the Lifetime Original Movie event CALL ME CRAZY: A FIVE FILM, which brings together an all-star ensemble cast with five interwoven stories about how everlasting bonds of love and family can overcome life's most challenging hurdles. The event will make its world premiere on Saturday, April 20, at 8:00pm ET/PT. Get a first look below courtesy of ETonline!

Hudson will be featured as Maggie in the short penned by Erin Cressida Wilson and directed by Ashley Judd, a female veteran (Hudson) returns home from war to her son and father (Ernie Hudson), only to have her life shattered by the onset of posttraumatic stress disorder, through which her lawyer, "Lucy," helps her. Griffith also stars in Maggie.

About CALL ME CRAZY:

Through the five shorts named after each title character -- Lucy, Eddie, Allison, Grace and Maggie - powerful relationships Built on hope and triumph raise a new understanding of what happens when a loved one struggles with mental illness.

Call Me Crazy stars Academy Award and Golden Globe winners Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls), Melissa Leo (The Fighter) and Octavia Spencer (The Help), SARAH HYLANd (Modern Family), Sofia Vassilieva (My Sister's Keeper), Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect), Ernie Hudson (Oz), Jason Ritter (Parenthood), three-time Emmy Award-winner Jean Smart (Frasier), Lea Thompson (J. Edgar), Oscar-nominee Melanie Griffith (Working Girl) and Chelsea Handler (Chelsea Lately). Laura Dern (Enlightened), Bryce Dallas Howard (The Help), Bonnie Hunt (Return to Me), Ashley Judd (Missing) and Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones's Diary) direct the anthology.

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