Film Medical Theme: Troubles bipolaires (Trouble maniaco-dépressif)

Mr. Jones

Language : English

Year : 1993

Medical Theme : Bipolar disorder

Actors : Richard Gere, Lena Olin, Anne Bancroft, Tom Irwin, Delroy Lindo, Bruce Altman, Lauren Tom, Lisa Malkiewicz, Thomas Kopache, Peter Jurasik, León Singer, Anna Maria Horsford, Edward Padilla, Baha Jackson, Epatha Harris

Storyline : Mr. Jones suffers from bipolar disorder; experiencing extremes of mood - of happiness and suicidal depression. Dr. Libbie, a psychiatrist Treats him and finds him to be intelligent, perceptive, and charming. Mr. Jones also likes her and places his trust on her. However the longer Mr. Jones spends at the hospital, the more he misses the soaring highs that he had experienced. Dr, Libbie takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.

The Informant

Language : English

Year : 2009

Medical Theme : Bipolar Disorder

Actors : Matt Damon, Lucas McHugh Carroll, Eddie Jemmison

Storyline : Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre acts as a whistle blower on his company’s price fixing tactics. In the course of acting as an informant he clandestinely tapes his company’s activities in different locations helping the FBI collect enough evidence to warrant a raid. Suffering with bi-polar disorder, in due course of time, his interests dovetail. He embezzles $9 million from his company while assisting FBI simultaneously hoping to become a CEO amidst all of this. Unable to cope with his own infractions and disorder, his claims get bizarre, to an extent he files a false complaint against an FBI agent for assault. What started off as a good deed, ends up with Mark Whitacre serving a prison term three times more than what white collar criminals are sentenced to. The movie is extremely slow paced but brings out an interesting crime story of conspiracies in the agricultural industry.