前歷史老師派特(布萊德利庫柏 飾)在精神病院待了八個月後終於出院,現在的他與爸媽住在一起。而出院後他最想做的事,就是和離異的妻子重修舊好。派特不願接受他和妻子的關係已經沒有挽回的餘地,仍試著要改變自己,每天都努力著要讓自己成為妻子心目中理想的對象。然而此時他的生命中卻闖入了另一個女人:好友朗尼的寡婦小姨子蒂芬妮(珍妮佛勞倫斯 飾),她總在派特練習長跑的時候突然冒出來跟著他,漸漸地,這兩人在日復一日的交集相處下,他們之間的關係便開始產生了微妙的變化...
單親媽媽戴安娜獨自撫養具有暴力傾向的過動兒子史提夫,她總是擔心兒子惹是生非,史提夫則迫切想表達對媽媽的愛,兩人關係劍拔弩張,不時遊走於爆炸邊緣。新搬來的鄰居凱拉,意外暫時舒緩母子間失衡的緊繃張力,三人關係卻開始有了意料不到的發展⋯⋯。 《親愛媽咪》延續札維耶多藍獨有的豐富影像語言與強烈劇情張力,再次以母親作為創作主題,情緒顯得更加飽滿,演員充滿爆發力的表演精湛到位,被譽為多藍至今最佳作品,成熟且富有大將之風。以一比一的特殊比例拍攝,大膽挑戰傳統電影觀賞方式,為導演對這個自拍世代的最佳辯證。多藍以本片首度挺進坎城競賽,並與法國新浪潮傳奇導演高達的《告別語言》同獲獎。
Rita, a 13 year old girl, runs away from her abusive father to the big city. She finds solace until she's placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plots an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.
A soap opera parody along the lines of Young Doctors in Love (1982).
The movie recalls children who suffered mental and physical harm both during the last century, particularly in religious orphanages, and during the time of early modernperiod witch-hunts. It shows that the mindsets and behavioural patterns of both time periods are more alike than one might think.
Dateline's coverage of the lawsuit by Patty Burgus and family against Bennett Braun, director of the Dissociative Disorder's Unit at Rush Presbyterian St. Lukes in Chicago. Oct 1998. This is the story of the foundational works which constitute the current theory of Dissociative Identity Disorder/ Multiple Personality Disorder. This was the first Dissociative Disorder's Unit in the United States. All subsequent units specializing in Multiple Personality Disorder/ Dissociative Identity Disorders have been modeled after it. After having his license suspended in Illinois, Dr. Braun has resumed practice in Butte, Montana. Despite the malpractice payments paid by insurance on his behalf as well, Dr. Kluft remains in practice and continues to give training lectures on the treatment of MPD/DID to large audiences of mental health practitioners.
A CBS Schoolbreak Special about a 12-year-old mentally-challenged girl whose parents decide to remove her from the institution where she was raised, and try to give her a home life.
Rock star Roddy Usher is confined to an insane asylum after murdering his wife. There, he is given various shock treatments by Nurse Smith and Dr Calahari, resulting in a series of bizarre and nightmarish adventures.
A cat named Penny living in a desensitized, unstable world has to find a new job after she gets fired in order to make her dad proud.
After accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, a professional wrestler takes a job at a group home for youth offenders. But when a psychopath wearing a wrestling mask begins butchering the teenage residents, their rehabilitation will become a no-holds-barred battle for survival. Originally filmed in 1994 but completed in 2019.
In a Latin American psychiatric hospital, a woman abandoned by her family and a man incarcerated by force, they share the same sadness and loneliness. Both will face a love beyond any explanation.
Unlocking memories of institutional ‘care’. Parragirls Past, Present is a deeply moving immersive experience, presenting former residents’ visions of the Parramatta Girls Home today.
Segregation, abandonment, and the meaning of home are discussed by the people that lived in, worked at, and crusaded for one of the largest and oldest Intellectual and Developmental Disability Institutions in the United States. The facility, in its closing, challenged society's perception of those with intellectual disabilities and ultimately fought for better rights.