A young man is standing in a hospital room inhabited by his mentally ill mother. She is asleep; instead of waking her, he leaves the room. In search of distraction, he drifts through day and night. He embarks on a series of events that bring light into his fears, his identity conflicts, and his desire for a sense of belonging in this world.
Laurin Saied
Maya Unger
Marisa Growaldt
A young man is standing in a hospital room inhabited by his mentally ill mother. She is asleep; instead of waking her, he leaves the room. In search of distraction, he drifts through day and night. He embarks on a series of events that bring light into his fears, his identity conflicts, and his desire for a sense of belonging in this world.
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
David, an orderly at a hospital, tells his horrific story of being kidnapped and forced to play a vile game of survival.
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
Now confined to a mental hospital, young Kirsty insists her supposedly dead father is actually stuck in Hell following his wife’s betrayal. Few believe the young woman’s lurid stories aside from the thrill-seeking Dr. Channard. Kirsty is undeterred and, with the help of a fellow patient, heads to Hell for a rescue.
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
A doctor dealing with the aftermath of his son's death tries to help a troubled young man.
A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming task any easier.
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.