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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
Yes. Though an older movie from 1987, last night I watched "Ironweed" starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. Great performances, great story, and directing! Nicholson and Streep were nominated for Oscars for that movie. They played homeless alcoholics. Nicholson's character also had schizophrenia. The story went beyond those simple facts, though.
Q: Have you seen a movie or TV show that grossly misrepresented a mental illness? What were its major shortcomings, in that respect? Any mental illness.
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Too many to enumerate. Most of those who try to tackle the topic just go sort of archetypal, cliche stuff, I guess, has been my observation. There are obviously some good ones, terrific ones. I thought
Gia was absolutely superb, for example. I know you and many others were quite impressed with the recent
Joker film. For some reason, I found it to be pretty trite and actually sort of marginalizing and labeling and improperly stereotyping of us. This sort of nonsensical drive toward random violence. Not sure why that was my reaction, but it was, for whatever set of reasons.
Current favorite actress?