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True story about mathematician John Nash and his life with schizophrenia.
Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind is directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard and produced by long-time partner and collaborator, Academy Award winner Brian Grazer. A Beautiful Mind stars Russell Crowe in an astonishing performance as brilliant mathematician John Nash, on the brink of international acclaim when he becomes entangled in a mysterious conspiracy. Now only his devoted wife (Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly) can help him in this powerful story of courage, passion and triumph. |
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Tom Hanks starts as a man with mental retardation, and the experiences he has in his life with friends, family, and strangers.
Through three turbulent decades forrest rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disability to football stardom from vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon from white house honors to the arms of his one true love. Forrest is an innocent at large in an america that is losing its innocence. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/25/2005 Starring: Tom Hanks Sally Field Run time: 141 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Robert Zemeckis
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True story of the famous model's substance abuse, her relationships, and her life after she was one of the first women to contract HIV.
Its the late 70s in new york - studio 54 designer jeans drugs & disco. One girl is living life in the fast lane. She can have any man - or any woman - she wants. Sex money glamour fame..Its all within her reach. Shes a goddess. Shes a star. Her name is gia. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 01/16/2007 Starring: Angelina Jolie Mercedes Ruehl Run time: 120 minutes Rating: Ur |
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After a botched suicide attempt susanna kaysen checks herself into a renowned psychiatric hospital where she meets a group of troubled young women including the charming sociopath lisa and soon realizes shell have to fight for her sanity and her freedom. A True Story. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Winona Ryder Whoopi Goldberg Run time: 127 minutes Rating: R Director: James Mangold |
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck co-scripted and star in this drama, set in Boston and Cambridge, about rebellious 20-year-old MIT janitor Will Hunting (Damon), gifted with a photographic memory, who hangs out with his South Boston bar buddies, his best friend Chuckie (Affleck), and his affluent British girlfriend Skylar (Minnie Driver). After MIT professor Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard) stumps students with a challenging math formula on a hallway blackboard, Will anonymously leaves the correct solution, prompting Lambeau to track the elusive young genius. As Will's problems with the police escalate, Lambeau offers an out, but with two conditions -- visits to a therapist and weekly math sessions. Will agrees to the latter but refuses to cooperate with a succession of therapists. Lambeau then contacts his former classmate, therapist Sean McGuire (Robin Williams), an instructor at Bunker Hill Community College. Both are equally stubborn, but Will is finally forced to deal with both his past and his future. |
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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ROSE GARDEN delivered a dramatic, emotionally compelling portrait of a young woman's experience of psychiatric treatment. This Oscar(R)-nominated screenplay was adapated from the best-selling novel by Hannah Green. It features a critically acclaimed performance by a young Kathleen Quinlan in an extremely challenging role. Shot with stark realism, the film pulls no punches in its depiction of a psychiatric ward, while maintaining individual and sensitive portrayals of the hospital's residents." -- Roger Corman~~~In her critically acclaimed performance, Kathleen Quinlan inhabits Deborah, a mentally ill teen who struggles between fantasy and reality, escaping to her own imaginary world. Deborah is sent to a psychiatric hospital for treatment by Dr. Fried (Ingmar Bergman favorite Bibi Andersson), who must attempt to rescue Deborah from the cruel beauty of her inner world. |
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Chalk up another virtuoso performance for Sean Penn, whose remarkable portrayal of a developmentally challenged father waging a custody fight makes this potentially mawkish drama a must-see movie. His Sam Dawson is a good-natured, Beatles-obsessed Starbucks clerk with the mental capacity of a seven-year-old. When it becomes apparent that his young daughter, Lucy (played by adorable newcomer Dakota Fanning), is deliberately stunting her intellectual development so he can keep up with her, social workers take the girl away from him. Michelle Pfeiffer, whose own first-rate performance is regrettably overshadowed by Penn’s, plays a hard-charging lawyer shamed into representing Sam on a pro bono basis when he elects to challenge the system. Director Jessie Nelson (Corrina, Corrina), who also coauthored the screenplay, labors mightily to keep the Establishment types from seeming like black-hearted villains, and he allots ample footage to Pfeiffer’s character, who has an epiphany while defending the loving father and realizes that, for all his shortcomings, he possesses qualities she lacks as a parent. Nelson also keeps Sam’s numerous misadventures from becoming buffoonish or diminishing the severity of his dilemma. Penn plays this role with all the intensity and commitment his fans have come to expect, and thanks largely to him, I Am Sam is a touching, unforgettable film. Nelson supplies a feature-length commentary for the DVD, which also includes an original documentary, Becoming Sam, deleted scenes, alternate takes, and a theatrical trailer. |
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Moving and raw, INTERVENTION SEASON ONE: THEN AND NOW documents the stories of six individuals from the debut season of this series whose powerful addictions nearly ruined their lives.
Alyson was a gifted student and former White House intern until her dependence on alcohol and drugs nearly destroyed her dreams. Vanessa was once a successful actress before compulsive shopping drove her to bankruptcy and despair. Gabe is a gambler who has lost over $500,000 and hsi home, and Matt was addicted to crack-cocaine.
SEASON ONE also tracks the interventions of two meth addicts: Sara, who must save herself for the sake of her daughter, and former rock star Travis, whose early fame resulted in drug use.
Four original episodes trace these individuals battles with their diseases and the surprise interventions from their families. This special collection also includes follow-up stories that track Alyson, Gabe, Sara, and Travis roads to recovery.
Note: More Episodes Available. This reality television show looks at people who are addicted, their loved ones, and the family interventions used in the aid of treatment. On AE television. |
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Writer-director Nora Ephron hit a low point with this disappointingly dreary comedy set in a suicide clinic on Christmas Eve. The joke is supposed to be that all of the crisis counselors are themselves a pack of lovable losers, led by a badly toupeed Steve Martin. But it's a short step from lovable loser to annoying dweeb and most of the people in this movie cross that line very quickly. It's too bad, because the cast includes Madeline Kahn, Robert Klein, Rob Reiner, Garry Shandling, and Adam Sandler. Somehow, Ephron manages to restrain this lineup from doing anything funny. |
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Outrageous and controversial, this is the story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life. This torment was manifested in her relationships with her adopted children, Christina (Diana Scarwid) and Christopher (Xander Berkeley). The public Crawford was a strong-willed, glamorous object of admiration, but Mommie Dearest reveals the private Crawford, the woman desperate to be a mother, adopting her children when she was single and trying to survive in a devastating industry that swallows careers thoughtlessly. The rage, the debilitating strain, and the terrifying descent into alcoholism and child abuse are graphically - and unforgettably – depicted in this film, based upon Christina Crawford's best-selling book. |
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Barbra Streisand is a mad high-priced "escort" accused of murder, but whether she's mad as hell or mad as a hatter is the question in this courtroom drama, adapted from the play by Tom Topor. While her doting, willfully uncomprehending mother (Maureen Stapleton) and stepdad with a secret (Karl Malden) try to have her judged incompetent and sent to an asylum, she fights for her day in court with the help of a hapless legal aid attorney (a refreshingly understated Richard Dreyfuss). James Whitmore presides over the hearing with a compassion and sense of justice that gives one faith in a system and la Streisand (who developed and produced the project) sinks her teeth into the tempestuous role like a starving actress. The plot holds few surprised, but the drama lies in the characters and veteran director Martin Ritt (Hud) brings out the best in a top-flight cast. |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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A nice rest in a state mental hospital beats a stretch in the pen, right? Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a free-spirited con with lightning in his veins and glib on his tongue, fakes insanity and moves in with what he calls the "nuts." Immediately, his contagious sense of disorder runs up against numbing routine. No way should guys pickled on sedatives shuffle around in bathrobes when the World Series is on. This means war! On one side is McMurphy. On the other is soft-spoken Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), among the most coldly monstrous villains in film history. At stake is the fate of every patient on the ward. Based on Ken Kesey's acclaimed bestseller, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest swept all five major 1975 Academy Awards: Best Picture (produced by Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas), Actor (Nicholson), Actress (Fletcher), Director (Milos Forman) and Adapted Screenplay (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman). Raucous, searing and with a superb cast that includes Brad Dourif, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd in his film debut, this one soars. |
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Meet Patch Adams (Academy Award-winner Robin Williams), a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh - even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story, Patch Adams combines sidesplitting humor with an inspiring story that transcends the traditional comedy. |
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How much impact can one heartfelt idea have? a junior-high students class project idea ignites a chain reaction of goodness and consequences. The boys idea: when someone does you a favor dont pay it back pay it forward. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/11/2008 Starring: Kevin Spacey Haley Joel Osment Run time: 123 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Mimi Leder |
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Barbra Streisand's best film as a director is helped enormously by one of Nick Nolte's finest performances. Nolte plays a football coach who is estranged from his wife (Blythe Danner) and who enters into an affair with the psychiatrist (Streisand) of his suicidal sister (Melinda Dillon). Streisand is acceptable in her star turn, but behind the camera she paces the story very well and provides lots of room for Nolte to inhabit his burdened but likable character. George Carlin is a bit token as a gay New Yorker, although Jason Gould (Streisand's son) is good as a struggling teen in desperate need of a father figure. The whole film is worth watching just to see a great moment near the end where Nolte stands on a street, a bit slump-shouldered and wearing a look of sad resolve. It's great acting at its most minimal. Run Time: 132 minutes. Rating: R |
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Award winners Christina Ricci (CURSED, MONSTER) and Jessica Lange (BIG FISH, ROB ROY) star in this emotionally charged true story about a journey into excess! When talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel (Ricci) earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chance to escape the pressures of her working-class background and concentrate on her true talent. But what starts out so promising leads to self-destructive behavior and paralyzing depression that reflects an entire generation's struggle to navigate the effects of divorce, drugs, sex, and high expectations. Based on the best-selling autobiographical novel, PROZAC NATION also stars Michelle Williams (THE STATION AGENT), Anne Heche (JOHN Q), Jason Biggs (JERSEY GIRL), and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM). |
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After an autistic savant inherits three million dollars from his deceased father, his younger brother, in an attempt to trick him out of the money, learns some valuable lessons of life. Run Time: 2 hrs, 20 min. Rating: R |
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Virginia Cunningham (de havilland) appeared to have had an idyllic life - a nice home, a loving husband and prospects for a sriting career. But, something just wasn't right. Confusion, doubts about her husband's love, even violent outbursts led Virginia to be confined in a mental institution. She is put through a series of brutal treatments, including being forced into close quarters with patients whose disorders far exceed her own. The belief - the shock of the experience will return her to sanity. |
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Director Daniel Petrie's awe-inspiring and brutal drama, based on a real-life story, made television history when it was originally aired in 1977. Sally Field gives an outstanding award-winning performance as Sybil, a disturbed young woman who suffers from multiple personality behavior. Living alone in a New York apartment, Sybil is tormented by flashbacks and visions of her extremely painful childhood. Run Time 187 minutes. Rating: NR |
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A disastrous drunken episode lands successful new york journalist gwen cummings in rehab where she encounters a bizarre assortment of characters and unique rituals during her touching and often hilarious road to recovery. Special features: interactive menus scene selections and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Sandra Bullock Viggo Mortensen Run time: 104 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Betty Thomas |
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Eve White, a mousy, withdrawn housewife startles her husband (David Wayne) when she claims she did not buy the flashy, provocative clothes he finds in their bedroom. After she complains of blackouts, he takes her to a psychiatrist (Lee J. Cobb) who soon encounters her second personality, Eve Black, a sexy, uninhibited woman. As Eve's therapy continues, her third self, the sensible, intelligent Jane appears to help resolve her rare multiple personality condition. Based on a true story, this acclaimed psychological drama brilliantly explores the dimensions of the human mind. Run Time: 91 minutes |
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A twisting tale that attempts to chronicle the complex and diverse war on drugs. An ohio supreme court judge is appointed drug czar but his loyalties are divided as he finds out his daughter is addicted to heroin. A jailed kingpins wife attempts to take over his successful drug business. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Michael Douglas Salma Hayek Run time: 147 minutes Rating: R Director: Steven Soderbergh |
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The lives of an eclectic group of men who live in an affluent american suburb in the 70s are forever changed by their obsession with five doomed sisters. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/23/2005 Starring: Kirsten Dunst Hayden Christensen Run time: 97 minutes Rating: R Director: Sofia Coppola |
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White Oleander chronicles the life of Astrid (Alison Lohman), a young teenager who journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) goes to prison for committing a crime of passion. Set adrift in the world, Astrid struggles to become her own person while coming to terms with the challenges of living life on her own. Run Time: 109 minutes. Rating: PG13 |
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