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Apr 16, 2007, 04:21 PM
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Films Portraying Mental Illness... click HERE
I have been working on this list for a couple years on and off. Where the diagnosis of a character is not made 100% clear in the film, the diagnoses are personal interpretations. Many people have contributed to this list. If you have any more films to add please provide: Film name / Character name / Mental Illness |
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Apr 16, 2007, 04:24 PM
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Pepperoni,
Interesting thread. EJ |
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Apr 16, 2007, 04:44 PM
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May i highly recommend Sybil?? Both book and movie are simply extrordinary, the move, Sally Fields is brilliant and a wonderful actress....its really sad and wonderful....my mom bought the movie...it was great
also i recommend MOMMIE DEAREST A true story (book written by Joan Crawfords adopted daughter) the movie portrays Joan Crawford as severely abusive and an alocholic...i recommend this movie as well but i have never read the book i heard it is good though...
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Apr 16, 2007, 05:07 PM
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I vaguely remember this old one, "David and Lisa", probably goes back to the 50's, I just remember no one could ever touch David, he had some disorder where he'd freak, and I can't remember what Lisa's thing was, I was only a little kid.
Then there was one called "Autumn Leaves" probably from the early 60's or late 50's too, I think it was based on a writer who had had a breakdown. I vaguely remember them, but remember my parents watching any movies then about mental illness, when my brother had his first breakdown, back in the very early 60's, and was DXed with "manic-depression" now referred to as "bipolar", I guess cause it sounded better. Maybe "google" can give us more info on those old but good movies,eh?
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Apr 16, 2007, 05:45 PM
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thanku all for the suggestions
darkeyes: David and Lisa is a film I want to see. |
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Apr 16, 2007, 09:04 PM
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"The Lost Weekend" about a severe alchoholic.
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Apr 16, 2007, 10:09 PM
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I wonder if anyone has heard of this one?..... "Angel at my Table"...... here's the description--- it's a very good movie (IMO):
With An Angel at My Table, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Jane Campion brings to the screen the harrowing true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand’s most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, international literary fame. Beautifully capturing the color and power of the New Zealand landscape, the film earned Campion a sweep of her country’s film awards and the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival ..... I believe it was made in 1990, it's been debated that perhaps Janet Frame really suffered from social phobia..... mandy |
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Apr 17, 2007, 10:09 AM
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Aviator - Leonardo DiCaprio protrays Hughes who made movies and best known for his innovations in airplanes and technology - OCD
You have my favorite listed already... A Beautiful Mind - Russel Crow protrays John Nash who won a nobel prize for his mathmatical work - schizophrenia Just remembered another When A Man Loves a Woman - Meg Ryan - alcohol dependant
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Apr 17, 2007, 10:29 AM
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Don't forget "The Snake Pit"
tells about life in a mental hospital in the 1940's
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Apr 17, 2007, 05:26 PM
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I've thought of a couple of other films dealing with mental illness:
- "Face to Face" directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Liv Ullmann as a psychiatrist who is treating a young girl with a psychotic disorder - this is a very old film and not available on VHS or DVD yet (as far as I know) - It was, and still is, one of my favorite movies. Liv Ullmann develops symptoms of psychosis - can't remember the details. Also - "Requiem For a Dream" for a movie about drug addiction - with Jarod Leto and Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly - about heroin addiction and amphetamine/benzo addiction leading to psychosis - this is a disturbing film by Darren Aronofsky based on a book by Hubert Selby, the same author as "Pi"
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Apr 17, 2007, 07:34 PM
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thanku i just added most of these
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Apr 19, 2007, 08:21 AM
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Here's a powerful film I'd recomend to any serious person: Frances.
It is the story of actress Frances Parker who was purported to have chronic mental illness, though were are never quite certain given the inexact science of the time (and now). Jessica Lange gives a chilling performance (as if she knew something of the subject). Triggers: hospitalization, sexual abuse, psycho surgery, manipulative parents. Perhaps there is a little too much hollywood and not enough Frances in this film, but even if you enjoy it as a metaphoric period piece, this is an important movie to try and find. |
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Apr 19, 2007, 09:21 AM
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Does anyone know if there was a movie about Slyvia Plath, the writer? For some reason, I thought at some time, there was a movie made about her? Refresh my memory please, anyone? I know she wrote a lot of poetry and it has been said she was bipolar. I think I have her first name right, do I?
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Apr 19, 2007, 02:12 PM
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for I am Sam...please restate that as Mentally Retarded so as to be PC correct. thx
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Apr 20, 2007, 05:44 PM
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I feel the need to clarify a few things about my post on the movie "Frances" because I may have been misleading. The character portrayed in the film was an infamous actress named Frances Farmer (not Parker as I stated). Her biography is subject to much controversy as some have refuted her mental health diagnosis (she had a bipolar diagnosis at one point), the amount of mistreatment in the State hospital has been debated, and there is evidence that she may never have had psycho-surgery. To that extent, the film is probably an inaccurate biography of this troubled actress, but nonetheless an important dramatic fictional account of the abuses in mental health treatment at that time. It's a very memorable film. Sorry if I implied that it is a documentary.
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Apr 20, 2007, 09:06 PM
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thanks i will work on this over the weekend
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Apr 21, 2007, 02:51 PM
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dark eyes....Its called Sylvia
wonderful movie
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Apr 21, 2007, 04:18 PM
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</font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
darkeyes said: I vaguely remember this old one, "David and Lisa", probably goes back to the 50's, I just remember no one could ever touch David, he had some disorder where he'd freak, and I can't remember what Lisa's thing was, I was only a little kid. Then there was one called "Autumn Leaves" probably from the early 60's or late 50's too, I think it was based on a writer who had had a breakdown. I vaguely remember them, but remember my parents watching any movies then about mental illness, when my brother had his first breakdown, back in the very early 60's, and was DXed with "manic-depression" now referred to as "bipolar", I guess cause it sounded better. Maybe "google" can give us more info on those old but good movies,eh? </div></font></blockquote><font class="post"> Lisa (played by Janet Margolin, a beautiful actress who died fairly young) could only speak in rhymes. I saw it when it first came out (1962). I was a little kid at the time, but I got a lot out of it. |
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Apr 21, 2007, 09:02 PM
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Girl Interupted-too many mental issues in this movie to list here
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Aug 24, 2007, 09:40 AM
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Hywel Bennett is the actor, he plays Martin Durnley in a controversial 1968 BAFTA award winning British film, That also stars Hayley Mills as Susan Harper, and Billie Whitelaw as Joan Harper who incidentally was the person that won the 1969 Best Supporting Actress Award at the BAFTAS for her part in this film. It is of course Twisted Nerve.
Dx, Severely Emotionally Disturbed, Patricidal, Serial killing Psychopath, That is my own interpretation after watching the film earlier this week on cable. Here is a link pertaining to the film. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted_Nerve |
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