The Cobweb
"The Story of the Strange Mansion on the Hill"
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems.
"The Story of the Strange Mansion on the Hill"
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems.
Richard Widmark
Dr. Stewart 'Mac' McIver
Lauren Bacall
Meg Faversen Rinehart
Charles Boyer
Dr. Douglas N. Devanal
Gloria Grahame
Karen McIver
Lillian Gish
Victoria Inch
John Kerr
Steven W. Holte
Susan Strasberg
Sue Brett
Oscar Levant
Mr. Capp
Paul Stewart
Dr. Otto Wolff
Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems.
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
When a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confront a brutal criminal to survive.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military hospital. When doctors suspect schizophrenia, an eccentric psychoanalyst takes up the case and starts a conversation with the veteran.
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.