Film Medical Theme: Troubles Mentaux

BA:BO

Language : English

Year : 2008

Medical Theme : Mental Disorder

Actors : Tae-hyun Cha, Ji-won Ha, Seol-ri Choi, Hyeong-gook Im, Mi-seon Jeon, Gi-yeong Lee, Grina Park, Ha-seon Park, Hie-sun Park

Story Line : Ji-ho, a promising pianist who has studied and played piano in foreign countries has a sudden fright one night, from which she never recovers. Ji-ho, who is in despair comes home and meets her old classmate Sung-ryong. Sung-ryong was once a very bright boy, but is now having the mind of a six Year old. He is in his late 20's, is forgetful, but has not forgot Ji-ho his first love. Besides he remembers his sister Jee-in. To take care of her he sells toasts in front of Jee-in's school, which makes her very embarrassed and tries to ignore him. Sang-soo is also one of Sung-ryong's old friends understanding his innocent mind. Sang-soo joins some gangsters gang and gets into a bloody dispute, Ji-ho is in a slump and Jee-in is sick. However, it is Sung-ryong who saves them all from agonies at the right time.

Blue Sky

Language : English

Year : 1994

Medical Theme : Mental Disease

Actors : Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Locane, Chris O'Donnell, Mitch Ryan, Dale Dye, Timothy Scott, Annie Ross, Anna Klemp, Anthony Rene Jones, Jay H. Seidl, David Bradford, Matt Battaglia

Story Line : Hank Marshall works in the army and is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced engineer and nuclear science expert,responsible, responsible to conduct weapon tests in 1950 in America. However he is a thorn of the Army, for a variety of reasons. He is an outspoken opponent of atmospheric testing and his superiors hold diverse views and want to spoil his concerns and reports. He has another major problem, being his wife Carly Marshall is voluptuous, volatile, and fun loving but who is mentally imbalanced. Carly is voluptuous and volatile, and fun loving. She and her daughters keep shifting This makes her and her family with two daughters to shift from one military base to another.

Doctor Dolittle

Language : English

Year : 1998

Medical Theme : Mental Disorder

Actors : Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt

Story Line : Dr. John Doolittle discovers his ability to understand the Language of the animals. Unfortunately, the doctor's ability is mistaken for mental disorder and his clinic is auctioned, and his family life is shattered. This is stopped when a circus tiger falls ill and his help is sought.

Harvey

Language : English

Year : 1950

Medical Theme : Mental Disease

Actors : James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Victoria Horne, Jesse White, William H. Lynn, Wallace Ford, Nana Bryant, Grayce Mills, Clem Bevans,

Story Line : The classic stage hit gets the Hollywood treatment in the story of Elwood P. Dowd makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey, which only he can see. His sister puts him in a mental institution and a series of comedy of errors starts which makes Elwood and Harvey to become catalysts for a family to heal their wounds and for romance to blossom from the most unexpected places.

K-PAX

Language : English

Year : 2001

Medical Theme : Mental Health

Actors : Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary Mc Cormack,

Story Line : It is a story of a mysterious patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a distant planet called K-PAX. As his psychiatrist tries to find out the method to help his patient, he realizes that the so-called alien is affecting the mental health of other patients in the hospital.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Language : English

Year : 1975

Medical Theme : Mental illness

Actors : Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher,William red field, Michael Berry man, Peter Brocco, Dean R.Books, Alonzo Brown

Story Line : McMurphy, a man with several assaults to his credit is sentenced to jail term several times. He pretends to be mad to get out of jail but is sent to a mental asylum for treatment. He challenges and resists the strict disciplinarian nurse Ratchet. He tries to rehabilitate fellow inmates but faces the wrath of the nurse.

Patch Adams

Language : English

Year : 1998

Medical Theme : Doctors / Mental Illness

Actors : Robin Williams, Philip Seymour, Monica Potter

Story Line : It is a true story. Patch Adams gets admitted to a mental hospital to overcome his mental trouble. He finds the doctors cold and indifferent towards the patients. So he decides to leave the mental asylum to work for the affected by becoming a doctor himself. As a student he establishes Gesundheit Clinic to treat the patients in a novel way.

Patch Adam

Language : English

Year : 1998

Medical Theme : Mental Disorder

Actors : Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Josef Sommer, Irma P. Hall, Frances Lee McCain, Harve Presnell, Daniella Kuhn, Peter Coyote, James Greene, Michael Jeter, Harold Gould, Bruce Bohne

Story Line : In 1969, PatchAdams who voluntarily stays in a mental institution,institution finds that helping the fellow inmates gives him an important purpose in life. Therefore, he determines to become a doctor to help people professionally when he leaves the mental institution. However, the scientific and medical community does not appreciate his system of healing and believes in not addressing the emotional and quality of life needs of the inmates. However the actual patients, medical professors, and hospital nurses all appreciate the work he can do, because they are unable to do it.Yes Adams is determined to find better ways to help them although he has to face serious consequences from the authorities.

Radio

Language : English

Year : 2003

Medical Theme : Mentally Challenged Disorder

Actors : Cuba Gooding Jr, Ed Harris, Alfre Woodard, S. Epatha Merkerson, Brent Sexton, Chris Mulkey, Sarah Drew, Riley Smith, Patrick Breen, Debra Winger, Bill Roberson, Kenneth H. Callender, Michael Harding, Charles Garren, Rebecca Koon

Story Line : Football coach Harold Jones of T.L. Hanna High School befriends Radio, a mentally challenged handicapped man, a student there and protects him from the abuse of other students. However with time Radio transforms from a shy and tormented man into a popular and beloved one.

Running With Scissors

Language : English

Year : 2007

Medical Theme : Mental Turmoil

Actors : Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Joseph Cross, Jill Clayburgh, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gabrielle Union, Patrick Wilson, Kristin Chenoweth, Dagmara Dominczyk, Colleen Camp, Jack Kaeding, Gabriel Guedj

Story Line : Augusten Burroughs; a 14-Year-old boy is handed over to the eccentric household of a psychiatrist Dr. Finch after his parents divorce each other. His mother who abandons him thinks she is a good poetess on the verge of fame. During that Year, Augusten avoids school, keeps a journal, and practices cosmetology. His mother's mental illness worsens. He strikes a friendship with Dr. Finch's daughter and also receives gifts from an unknown benefactor. The question arises, will he survive to come of age?

Reprise

Language : English

Year : 2006

Medical Theme : Mental Disorder

Actors : Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman-Høiner, Viktoria Winge, Odd Magnus Williamson, Pål Stokka, Christian Rubeck, Henrik Elvestad, Henrik Mestad, Rebekka Karijord, Sigmund Sæverud, Tone Danielsen, Elisabeth Sand, Thorbjørn Harr, Silje Hagen, Anne Sandvik Lindmo

Story Line : Erik and Phillip are both trying to be writers, but Erik's work is rejected by publishers, while Phillips makes it big on the Norwegian cultural scene practically overnight. Six months later, Erik and his friends go to visit Phillip at a psychiatric hospital and bring him back and writing is the last thing on Phillips mind now. However Erik is still continuing his literary pursuits and tries convincing his friend to take up writing again, This film is a subtle reflection on youth being a time for promise, plans and hopes which gradually disappear away with times with the impact of life experiences

Solace

Language : English

Year : 2006

Medical Theme : Mentally Challenged Disorder

Actors : Kathy Bates, Jasper Cole, Sotorios Kaviris, Margot Kidder, Ed Lauter, Lukasz Piatek, Margaret Travolta, Daryl Sabara, Rios Sotiros, David Jean Thomas

Story Line : A mother, in a desperate attempt to comfort her own life sends her son troubled son, Gunther to a mental hospital for Electro-convulsive therapy (ECT). Once admitted, Gunther meets a doctor whose unquestioned authority becomes challenged when a nurse allows her kind nature to interfere with her ability to follow hospital protocol. In an unstable environment, the line begins to blur between treatment and torture, sanity and madness, right and wrong. What happens when doing the right thing isn't good enough?

The Eye

Language : English

Year : 2008

Medical Theme : Cornea Transplant/ Mental illness

Actors : Jessica Alba, Alessandro Nivola

Story Line : Sydney Wells is a successful violinist, although blind since the age of five. Her Cornea was damaged when she and her sister were playing with fireworks. Twenty Years later Sydney undergoes a cornea transplant which brings back her vision. But she starts getting blurred and confusing visions and so she goes to Mexico to trace the donor's past and comes to know that the donor had committed suicide. While returning from Mexico, she sees a tanker with the number 106 and realizes that the vision she had been getting refers to the future. In an effort to save the lives of many she shouts and runs in their midst when her eye is injured in the blast and she loses her sight once again.

The Dream Team

Language : English

Year : 1989

Medical Theme : Mental Disorder

Actors : Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst, Dennis Boutsikaris, Lorraine Bracco, Milo O'Shea, Philip Bosco, James Remar, Bill Goffi, Jack Duffy, Brad Sullivan, Larry Pine, Harold Surratt, Kenneth Raybourne

Story Line : Dr. Weitzman works with 4 patients; Mike is a tad delusional, Harry who believes himself to be a doctor, Jack who is an ad executive believing that Jesus is speaking to him and Albert an adult who occasionally wets himself on group therapy. The doctor being convinced that all of them need some fresh air and time away from the sanitarium, persuades the administration to allow him to take them to a ballgame. But unfortunately, the doctor gets attacked in a crime and is hospitalized.The four crazy people ies find that Weitzman will be murdered as a witness and no one believes four mental patients. The group is stranded in New York City and have to make use of and overcome their delusions to help rescue the doctor from the police and killers who are desperately after him.

Tideland

Language : English

Year : 2005

Medical Theme : Mentally Challenged Disorder

Actors : Jodelle Ferland, Janet McTeer, Brendan Fletcher, Jennifer Tilly, Jeff Bridges, Dylan Taylor, Wendy Anderson, Sally Crooks

Story Line : Jeliza-Rose, a pre-teen girl has drug addict parents. When her parents die she is transferred mentally into a fantasy world with her dolls. Jeliza also stars the crazy locals, notably Dell, her domineering ma and her adult retarded brother.

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

Language : English

Year : 1993

Medical Theme : Mentally challenged disorder

Actors : Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgn, Leonardo DiCaprio

Story Line : Set in a fictional town Endora, the story revolves around Gilbert Grape (Johnny depp) and his mentally challenged younger brother Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio). Johnny Depp is a depressed young man who struggles to cope with the responsibilities thrust upon him, which involves taking care of his obese mother, his mentally challenged brother and providing his family's daily needs. While struggling with his life, Gilbert comes across Becky- a charming young lady, who stays with her grandmother in Endora. Becky’s arrival into Gilberts life has a positive impact on him and it helps him find hope and rediscover the happiness he was looking for.

I Am Sam

Language : English

Year : 2002

Medical Theme : Mental disorder

Actors : Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Loretta Devine, Richard Schiff, Laura Dern, Brad Silverman, Joseph Rosenberg, Stanley DeSantis, Doug Hutchison, Rosalind Chao, Ken Jenkins, Wendy Phillips, Mason Lucero

Story Line : Sam Dawson, working at Starbucks is obsessed with the Beatles. He has the capacity of a 7 Year old and also has a daughter with a homeless woman., He names his daughter Lucy Diamond after a Beatles song. But as Lucy turns 7, herself, she experiences problems in school and starts to hold back to avoid looking more smart than her father. The authorities take away Lucy and Sam asks a high priced lawyer to take up his case . Sam also teaches her all about love and how necessary it is in life.

Garden State

Language : English

Year : 2004

Medical Theme : Mental Disease

Actors : Zach Braff, Kenneth Graymez, George C. Wolfe, Austin Lysy, Gary Gilbert, Jill Flint, Ian Holm, Peter Sarsgaard, Alex Burns, Jackie Hoffman, Michael Weston, Christopher Carley, Armando Riesco, Amy Ferguson, Trisha LaFache

Story Line : Andrew Largeman goes through life in a lithium induced coma as advised by his psychiatrist father and another doctor. When his mother dies, he decides to be off his pills and feels the pain he very much longed for and also develops a genuine relationship with Sam, who brings color and hope to his life. Sam's warmth and fearlessness gives Large the courage to open his heart to the joy and pain of the infinite abyss that is life

A Bill of Divorcement

Language : English

Year : 1932

Medical Theme : Genetics / Mental illness

Actors : Katherine Hepburn, John Barrymore, Billy Burke

Story Line : After spending fifteen Years in an asylum Hilary Fanfield escapes from the institution and reaches home. He finds things have changed at home and his wife has divorced him to marry again. His daughter is planning to marry as well. After knowing from the doctor that the mental illness her father is suffering is hereditary, she leaves her fiance and lives with her father.

Repulsion

Language : English

Year : 1965

Medical Theme : Mental Illness/Insanity

Actors : Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser

Story Line : A Belgian girl, Carol, works as a Manicurist at a London Beauty Salon. While having lunch, a good looking young man, Colin spots her and makes a date for another evening. She shares a flat with her sister Helen. Her sister's friend brings out her dislike for men which she cannot explain to Colin. Michael takes Helen abroad for a holiday. Left alone in their flat Carol's moments of catalepsy and hallucination increase and deepen into madness.