other mental illness movies
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vanityfair_713 — 17 years ago(March 21, 2009 05:52 PM)
Exactly what I was thinkingwhen anyone even mentions this type of thing, I instantly think of Sybil and The Three Faces of Eve.
Identity
Me Myself and Irene
Awakenings (in a wayabout catatonia)
Kind of a broad subject though, as mental disorders are numerous. Like are we counting films with sociopaths? Because that would include tons of horror films. Or is this strictly for movies in which the mental disorder is a key subject?
Personally, I think I have too much bloom. Maybe that's the trouble with me. -
gonzalo-74 — 19 years ago(January 06, 2007 06:16 AM)
I'm gonna take your advise and try to watch that one,
Blue Sky
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But i have my prefered ones starting by
Mr. Jones
,1993. I'm bipolar myself, that's why i think it's pretty real (wether i've never had that relation with my shrink).
Some Voices
, 2000 (with new Bond: Daniel Craig) Nice story about another mental illness.
I would also recommend
K-PAX
, 2001. Where almost whole action is taking place in a wonderful psychiatric hospital, and is all about relations doctor-patient.
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penny_lane086 — 18 years ago(September 21, 2007 02:42 AM)
Prozac Nation was wonderful at protraying mental illness. As one with bipolar I thought Christina Ricci should have won an oscar for her role in that film.
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Shiny-NZ — 15 years ago(January 11, 2011 01:43 AM)
Oooh, I was going to suggest Betty Blue! BEAUTIFUL, haunting movie.
Benny and Joon (to the person who said they thought those characters were just quirky - Joon is mentally ill and shows symptoms of schizophrenia, aspergers and panic attacks).
Gah, I just tried to recommend two others but realised that by associating them with mental illness I was spoiling the plot-twist. -
numbmannequin — 14 years ago(March 04, 2012 04:13 PM)
Secret cutting- a tv movie about a girl who has self injury issues, and also depression
Copy cat-a movie with sigourney weaver who has post traumatic stress and agoraphobia
Inside Out- about a man with extreme agoraphobia
Sybil-the quintessential mental illness movie starring sally fields as a woman with multiple personalities, now known as Dissociative identity disorder
Don't Say A Word- about a girl in a mental hospital who pretends to have many different mental disorders to hide from people who killed her father (i think in the movie she really only had post traumatic stress)
Rain Man- about autism
Sylvia- about sylvia plath who had depression
Fight Club-the character of edward norton had dissociative identity disorder, and the character of marla singer had depression ( i think)
Identity- also a movie about a man with dissociative identity disorder
The Jacket- a man who is in a mental hospitalits weird because the movie is kind of about him somehow going into the past and the future and changing events or seeing them
The machinist- about a man with dissociative identity disorder
Peacock- about a man with dissociative identity disorder and agoraphobia (it seemed that way to me) who cross dresses as his mother who is dead
Frankie and Alice-with Halle Barry who plays a woman who has Dissociative identity disorder and stays in a mental hospital
The Ward- about a woman in a mental institution who is haunted -
IDream_ofJoaquin — 13 years ago(May 20, 2012 06:05 PM)
I know some of these responses are almost 7 years old but two of them were highly offensive and make the posters look like imbeciles.
Rain Man is not about someone with a mental illness, he is autistic.
The Other Sister is not about someone with a mental illness, she is mentally challenged.
Dummies. -
PhillyFreddy — 11 years ago(July 01, 2014 09:33 PM)
To afx3000, and anyone else who enjoys movies like this one or girl interrupted , Prozac Nation is blah. not that great but I'm basing that a lot on that I read and re read Prozac Nation which was one if not the 1 best book about teens early adults with those who's lives are similar to Elizabeth's it felt spot on. I was depressed the movie didn't do the book justice, however Christianity aricci was great! Bottom line read the book and her follow-up More,Now,Again. Also great!!
