Don Juan DeMarco

#donjuandemarco

Lover Don Juan explains, "This is why at twenty one I have determined to end my life." (0:03)

"Oh well. Now I must die" He prepares to jump to his death. (0:07)

Detective Tobias tells psychiatrist Jack Mickler, "This is a job that only a certain shrink can handle... He wants to end his life gloriously." (0:08)

Jack: "Are you sure this is how Freud started?" (0:09)

Jack asks Don Juan, "Why with so many successes does the great Don Juan want to end his life?"
Don Juan: "Because there is nothing left to live for." (0:09)

"Woodhave State Hospital" gates close behind Jack's car. (0:12)

Jack says Don Juan was "brought in on a ten day paper after a suicidal gesture... no previous history of suicide... severely delusional." (0:13)

Psychiatrist Dr. Showalter tells Jack, "A delusional patient like this does not get cured in a week and a half... He'll be committed..." (0:14)

In session with psychiatrist Dr. Bill Dunsmore asks Don Juan, "Would you like to talk about why you attempted to kill yourself?" (0:16)

Bill asks Jack, "You told a delusional patient that you were a 17th century Spanish nobleman?" In a hospital corridor we see patients and staff. (0:18)

In session Jack tells Don Juan, "I have some pills here... I think they will help."
Don Juan: "You are severely deluded."
Jack: "They can make you take the medication... ten day paper."
Don Juan: "I am not deluded... If you will not medicate me... I will prove it to you... Then I will take your medication... and you may commit me for as long as you like." (0:19)

Don Juan tells Jack, "My father had come to Mexico to work for a pharmaceutical company." (0:25)

Dr. Showalter asks Jack, "When do you intend to start Don Juan on medication?... You do intend to give him medication... He's a delusional patient."
Jack: "If I give him medication Paul I'm never get into this world of his."
Showalter: "OK. No meds..."
Showalter: "In his hacienda, there are more nurses on Valium than patients." (0:28)

Nurse Rocco tells Don Juan, "Hey man it's time for your shrink." (0:29)

Jack administers the Rorschach test to Don Juan
Jack asks Don Juan whether "... this is a psychiatric hospital... and I am your psychiatrist?"
Don Juan: "... I understand that this is a mental hospital?" (0:30)

Jack dictates: "Obsessive compulsive disorder, with erotomanic features. Confirm delusional disorder. Confirm depression with delusional features. Possible hysterical personality." (0:37)

Session (0:45)

The death of Don Juan's father in a sword fight. (0:48)

Showalter: "It's time to put the kid on meds Jack."
Jack: "Fill him full of antipsychotic chemicals..."
Showalter "He is a schizophrenic... Put the boy on medication." (0:53)

Don Juan's grandmother tells Jack, "Tony died in a terrible car crash." (0:55)

In a session Don Juan asks Jack, "... so you will think I am sane... But there is a rumor that you are supposed to be a psychiatrist... Can you not tell when you meet a woman who is completely insane?" (0:56)

Jack tells Don Juan, "He tried to kill himself..." (0:58)

Don Juan tells Jack "Though I had no idea why I was made to dress as a female..." (1:00)

Staff meeting to discuss Don Juan:
Showalter: "Do we ask the judge to commit him?"
Showalter: "Jack, He's a suicidal patient."
Jack: "He's not suicidal. It was a call for help if it was anything."
Showalter: "We're going to have to transfer him to another therapist"
Bill: "If he's on medication I could."
Showalter: "He'll be on medication."
Jack: "All right, I'll give him a hundred milligrams of Novak qid... decrease it once his anxiety lessens" (1:07)

Don Juan turns the tables on Jack, and takes over the role of psychotherapist. (1:12)

Don Juan takes the medication given him by Jack. (1:22)

Commitment hearing with Judge who asks, "... what made you want to kill yourself..."
Don Juan: "... so I was going to kill myself... or at least I was going to make people believe that I was going to kill myself so I could get some attention or something. I never really had any intention of killing myself."
Judge: "I'm certainly not going to commit him to a mental institution..."
Jack: "Thank God for medication."

Jack: "I am the world's greatest psychiatrist."
"I must report, that the last patient I ever treated… the great lover, Don Juan De Marco, suffered from a romanticism which was completely incurable. And even worse, contagious…" (1:31)

Does the fact that Don Juan ultimately appears free of mental illness absolve Jack of a responsibility to maintain boundaries?

boundaries | civil committment | cross-dressing | delusion | Delusional Disorder | diazepam | erotomania | Sigmund Freud | psychiatric hospital | psychiatrist | psychological testing | psychotherapy | Hermann Rorschach | suicide

Pinky

#pinkymovie

Dr. Adams prepares nurse Pinky for an assignement: "She's... under the hypo right now... Have you ever given a hypo?" (0:32)

Dowager Miss Em tells Pinky she will not take "any more of Joe McGill's stupid dope." Would this likely have been morphine or other narcotic analgesic?
Pinky: "They'll relieve the pain." (0:35)

Miss M tells Pinky, "Just prove you're addicted to the truth..." (0:43)

Cousin Melba asks Pinky, referring to Miss M, "She's nappin', or is she doped?"
M: "I never nap and I'm not doped." (0:53)

Em asks Dr. McGill, "What is that, dope?" (1:00)

Pinky's grandmonther Dicey and Pinky realize Em has died. (1:04)

Dicey and Pinky dressed in black return from funeral for Em. (1:08)

Jake tells Pinky, "The white folks are saying you kept Miss Em doped all the time." (1:12)

Attorney Stanley tells the court, "The deceased was unquestionably senile... and she was under the influence of drugs administered by the defendant." (1:21)

Retired Judge Walker, acting as Pinky's attorney, tells the court, "I do not believe that any of us who knew Miss Em... can accept the contention that she was insane." (122)

Mrs. Wooley tells the court about Miss Em, "She was doped." and later,  "I don't remember 'cause she was doped." (1:27)

Bereavement | narcotic analgesic | sedative | senile dementia | testamentary capacity

Based on the novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner:

Big Brown Eyes

#bigbrowneyes

Ex-con Benny  tells detective Sgt. Danny when he got out of prison: "About an hour ago thanks to the habeas corupus." (0:04)

Manicurist Eve asks Danny, "What is it, a female impersonator?" (0:16)

Danny tells Eve, "He'll get that shyster lawyer of his down here with a writ and be on the street again." (0:34)

Danny tells a police desk sergeant, "What'd I tell you. Habeas corpus. You'd better let Battle out of here." (0:35)

writ of habeas corpus

Wings in the Dark

#wingsinthedark

Government aviation regulator Top tells pilot Ken, "The department figured that we couldn't publicly sanction a man going out to commit suicide." (0:11)

Ken tells pilot Sheila, "I'm going on until it's too late to turn back."
Sheila: "You can't do it." (1:12)

suicide

The 39 Steps

#39steps

Fugitive Richard Hannay asks agent Annabella Smith, "Have you ever heard of a thing called persecution mania." (0:12)

Showing him a pistol, Professor Jordan proposes that after Richard uses it the world will see "that the Portland Place murderer had taken his own life." (0:44)

mania | persecutory delusion | suicide

Read the novel by John Buchan:

The Lovely Bones

#thelovelybones | The Lovely Bones

Susie's parents Abigail and Jack learn she may have died. (0:39)

Susie's sister Lindsey asks, "Dad, she's dead, isn't she? (0:44)

Grieving, Jack smashes his ships-in-bottles. (0:54)

Susie's brother Buckley tells Jack that Susie came into his room and kissed him. (0:59)

Buckley tells grandma Lynn, "She's here, in the in-between." (1:06)

Lynn tells Abigail, "You have a tomb in the middle of your house." Then she asks, "Do you really think if you seal it up that the pain's going to go away?" (1:10)

Abigail goes into Susie's room for the first time after her death. (2:00)

Bereavement

Based on the novel by Alice Sebold:

Roxanne

#roxannemovie

Firechief C.D. tells astronomer Roxanne, "The people ski topless here while smoking dope..." (0:08)

New fireman Chris becomes so anxious that he runs away and vomits after an encounter with Roxanne. (0:20)

Chris runs away because of anxiety. (0:25)

C.D. tells a wise guy in the bar, "Keep that guy away from my cocaine." (0:34)

Surgeon Dave tells C.D., "What you want is psychotherapy."
CD: "Yeah, I can hear it now: Get used to it. $85 please." (0:44)

Chris admits to C.D., "I get a little nervous." (0:46)

Chris tells C.D. "I'm going to write her a letter." which will allow him to avoid the anxiety associated with conversation with Roxanne." (0:48)

Chris suffers a panic attack when he realizes he will see Roxanne that night for date. (0:59)

Would you recommend that a patient diagnosed with Body Dysmorphic Disorder watch this film?

anxiety | panic attack | phobia | psychotherapy

Based on Edmond Rostand's book:

Alphabet City

#alphabetcity

Dealer Lippy tells gangster Johnny: "I'm just a no good... junkie man." (0:10)

Addict Juani asks Johnny: "Got any good dope?" (0:23)

Shooting gallery, syringes on a table. (0:27)

A bouncer asks a junkie, "What for?"
Junkie: "Junk"
Bouncer: "Let me see the tracks." (0:29)

Johnny tells Lippy, "You're so high all the time you couldn't be scared if your life depended on it." (0:33)

Johnny: "Lippy, you gotta kick... I ain't gonna stand by and watch you kill yourself." (0:34)

Lippy tells Johnny, "Don't tell me nothin' about junk." (0:35)

A bouncer tells Johnny about "Some junkie. She OD'd in the bathroom." (0:58)

Moll Karen in gangster Tony's office divides cocaine on mirror, rolls a bill. (0:59)

addict | cocaine | heroin | suicide

Evelyn

#evelynmovie

Carpenter Desmond tells bar maid Bernadette: "Of course with this bump on me head I'm probably hallucinatin'." (0:21)

Sr. Brigid beats orphan Annette, then Desmond's daughter Evelyn. (0:27)

Bernadette tells Desmond, "What I don't want is a drunkard." (0:37)

Desmond's father Henry dies. Burial. (0:40)

Desmond and his lawyers serve a writ of habeus corpus on Sr. Theresa. (0:51)

Bereavement | Physical Abuse of Child | writ of habeus corpus

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

#buckaroobanzai

Voice on the radio in Dr. Emilio Lizardo's home: "Lithium is no longer available on credit." (0:15)

Despondent restaurant patron Penny puts the muzzle of a pistol to hear head. (0:22)

Banzai's sidekick Rawhide informs him about Lizardo: "Last night he breaks out of the Trenton Home for the Criminally Insane. "
"a raving lunatic... vicious psychopath..." (0:25)

The Secretary of Defense tells President Widmark, "If it wasn’t Buckaroo Banzai I’d say commit the man." (1:06)

civil commitment | lithium | psychopath | suicide

Hello Again

#helloagainmovie

Homemaker Lucy dies. After her funeral her son Danny grieves. (0:20)

Her sister Zelda visits Lucy's grave. (0:25)

Lucy's college friend Kim announces, "The spotlight is like a narcotic." (1:25)

Bereavement | narcotic

The Dukes

#thedukes

Magazine stand operator Murph tells his friends, "The cops seized it all -- the money, the marijuana..." (0:30)

Singer Danny, noticing that Murph appears inappropriately giddy, asks him, "Did you smoke that crap again?" Murph continues to giggle. (0:51)

As they enter the laboratory Murph appears frightened and suspicious: "I heard something... Somebody's there."
George: "You're a mook, a paranoid mook." (0:55)

Murph hallucinates sounds and visions of police. Danny tells George, "He stoned." (0:58)

cannabis | Cannabis Intoxication | hallucination | inappropriate affect | paranoia

Undercurrent

#undercurrentmovie

Alan tells Ann, "You're mad, Ann."
Ann: "I feel as though I were living in a dream, haunted by your obsession, your hatred for your brother." (1:14)

Alan tells his brother Mike, referring to deceased scientist Steuer, "He was senile."
Mike: "He wasn't senile." (1:27)

Ann tells Alan, "You remember I once told you that Michael was your obsession?
Alan: "Yes."
Ann: "I think he's my obsession." (1:36)

obsession | senile dementia

Shrink Rap

#shrinkrapmovie

The film opens with a psychotherapy session in which bartender Dennis tells his silent psychotherapist, "So I figured I must have some issues that I'm not dealing with." (0:01)

Dennis as narrator refers to agent Sheila's experience "which led to rehab..." (0:07)

Actor Brian demonstrates ataxic effects of alcohol intoxication. (0:11)

Dennis tells Brian "You were really drunk. I had to do something." (0:14)

Dennis tells Brian "I'm studying to become a licensed psychologist."
Brian: "A shrink?" (0:19)

Dennis reads a page on denial from a book that appears to be entitled "Psychotherapy for Dummies."
Brian: "All I've got's a hangover."
Dennis tells Brian: "You're in denial...
Brian: "No, I'm not"
Dennis: "You're denying you're in denial?" (0:20)

Brian tells actor Jamie, "He's a therapist."
Dennis corrects: "Behavioral psychologist." (0:23)

Dennis reads, "The therapist must get the new patient to acknowledge his or her issues..." (0:26)

Dennis conducts an impromptu psychotherapy session with Brian. Dennis refers in his book to material covering "childhood trauma." (0:29)

Dennis looks up "pain" in his book. (0:32)

Dennis tries to do psychotherapy in a bar. (0:35)

Dennis conducts an impromptu session with Jamie's brother Nick. (0:47)

Jamie tells Brian: "You're the one who fell down... drunk." (0:48)

Dennis sets limits with Jamie, when she asks about Brian, "I can't tell you. Doctor-patient confidentiality." (0:50)

Dennis reads his computer screen: "America's Online Psychiatric College" and "Chat with your virtual professor... alcohol abuse." He conducts another session with Jamie. (0:52)

Dennis asks Brian, "You gonna jump?"
Brian: "Thinkin' about it."
Dennis, after he tries to dissuade Brian: "Well then, head first, right?" (0:53)

Dennis conducts an impromptu session with Jamie. (0:55)

Dennis in another session with his psychotherapist. (0:56)

Dennis: "Look Jamie, I know you have some boundary issues with me, but..."
Jamie: "I don't have boundary issues with you. I just want you out of my house."
Dennis: "That's a boundary issue." (0:58)

Brian tells Dennis, "I was drunk last night." (1:00)

In what becomes a psychotherapy group Brian introduces Dennis to his friends: "Dennis is my "
Dennis starts to say: "Thera..."
Dennis tells Brian: "I want you to embrace those feelings."
Brian's friend Michelle: "I feel Brian's an alcoholic..."
The ersatz session ends with a group hug. (1:01)

Dennis gets supervision via online chat. (1:05)

Dennis narrates about his "patients:" "Their issues and denial are so deep seeded... " (1:06)

Brian and Jamie put Dennis on the spot, but he is saved by a fortune cookie "Sometimes what you want isn't what you need."  (1:08)

After Dennis processes termination he moves on to treatment of producer Jeremy, then addresses more boundary issues: Dennis tells Brian and Jamie, "Nobody wants to see an anorexic do a nude scene."    (1:11)

Dennis, in session with his psychotherapist again, pontificates: "Ever since Freud there's been a big debate about psychoanalysis, whether it's a science or an art."
"Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung [pronounced with a "J" sound], Dr Phil..."
"Some people think that one day there won't be a need for therapists, you know, that all of our issues and dysfunctions will be cured just by taking a pill..."
"People will always need somebody to listen."
The "therapist," who turns out to have been a Jehovah's Witness, walks out in a huff. (1:14)

Alcohol Intoxication | boundaries | confidentiality | Sigmund Freud | Carl Jung | psychotherapist | psychotherapy | suicide

Also see Mumford and Intimate Strangers for portrayal of amateur psychotherapists.

They Call Me Mr. Tibbs!

#mrtibbs

Spoiler alert!

Prostitute Joy tells her client, “I’m sick of you and your lousy hang-ups.” (0:02)

Detective Virgil Tibbs tells his wife Valerie, “A famous psychologist once said...” (0:54)

When Virgil catches his son Andy smoking a cigarette he decides to apply his own brand of aversion therapy. He makes Andy puff on a cigar then drink what appears to be brandy, leading to nausea and vomiting. (0:56)

Woman answering the phone tells the other campaigners the police “just picked up on possession of pot.” (1:01)

Landlord Weedon in a drug deal; plastic bags of unidentified white powder, scales. (1:24)

Rev. Sharpe walks in front of a truck. (1:46)

aversion therapy | classical conditioning | hang-up | suicide

Jane Eyre

#janeeyre1996

Student Jane awakens to discover her friend Helen has died. She visits her grave. (0:23)

Smelling smoke, governess Jane discovers a fire in Lord Rochester's bedroom. (0:56)

Rochester tells Jane she appears "a little depressed." (1:09)

After a lawyer interrupts Rochester's attempt to wed Jane he introduces the party to his wife Bertha. "Come meet Grace Pool's patient, my wife."
"She is mad... three generations of violent lunacy... better off here than she would be in a lunatic asylum."
Bertha picks up a flaming log and, screaming, runs toward Jane. (1:34)

Bertha picks up a flaming log and starts another fire. She jumps to her death. (1:38)

Would we likely diagnose Bertha with Pyromania, or do these isolated attempts to start fires represent a symptom of a more pervasive mental disorder?

Bereavement | Pyromania | suicide

Read the book by Charlotte Bronte:

Bug

#bugmovie

Spoiler alert!

Waitress Agnes lights a joint. (0:02, 0:04, 0:10)

Close up of lines of cocaine on a mirror, dividing it with a razor blade. (0:09)

Drifter Peter tells Agnes about his mother, “She’s been dead a long time.” (0:15)

Close up of lines of cocaine on a mirror, a glass crack pipe and a plastic bag of crack: Agnes' ex-husband Jerry applies some cocaine to his gums with a finger. He asks Agnes, “Are you still snorting this...” (0:25)

Jerry hits Agnes. (0:27)

Agnes lights a joint held with roach clip. (0:32)

Peter relates to Agnes his increasingly delusion sounding convictions about how "the machines are up and running." (0:34)

Agnes tells Peter about her son and how “He disappeared.” (0:35)

Peter finds a bug in their bed, but Agnes cannot see it. Zoopsia? (0:40)

Peter tells Agnes, “I’ve got people after me.” (0:46)

Peter reveals more about persecutory delusions as he tells Agnes, “These doctors kept... I was having some weird thoughts... They started running these tests... asking questions... pills... drugged up guinea pig... government screw up... They’re after me." (0:48)

Jerry tells Peter, “Here I was all this time thinking you were... weirdo... freeloading coke head son of a bitch. (0:58)

Peter explains to Agnes and her friend R.C., "Thought they might be coke bugs... DEA sprays the coca plants." (1:00)

Agnes believes an insect is burrowing in her skin. Delusional parasitosis? (1:00)

We see how Peter has excoriated his skin by scratching imaginary bugs. (1:02)

Peter flails wildly, attempting to remove the bugs from his body. (1:04)

We see how Agnes has excoriated her skin by scratching imaginary bugs. (1:07)

Peter tells Agnes, “They’re my bugs... There’s a egg sack under my skin... government... experiment... like feeding LSD to enlisted men....” He pulls a tooth out with pliers. “They put an insect egg sack under my filling.” (1:08)

Psychiatrist (?) Dr. Sweet comes to the door of Agnes' room. Plastic and foil cover the walls and furniture; ultraviolet insect killers hang from the ceiling. (1:11)

Dr. Sweet tells Agnes about Peter: “He’s been diagnosed as a delusional paranoid with schizophrenic tendencies.” (1:14)

Close up of a glass crack (?) pipe in the foreground. Sweet lights the pipe as he explains to Agnes, “Bugs are a fairly common delusion among paranoids... Have you at least entertained the idea that the bugs are a delusion?”
Agnes: “How do I know you’re not a delusion?”
Sweet continues to smoke. (1:15)

Sweet tells Peter, “You need your meds.”
Sweet prepares a syringe hidden at his side.
Peter tells Agnes, referring to Sweet's lifeless body: “It is a machine.” He goes on to describe a conspiracy involving implanted computer chips. (1:22)

Peter tells Agnes, “I found my chip, and I cut it out.” Agnes includes her missing son, her ex-husband and her friend R.C. in an elaborate conspiracy theory.
“I am the super mother bug.”
“We have to kill them.” (1:26)

Agnes and Peter douse themselves with gasoline. Agnes lights a match. (1:34)

Bereavement | cannabis | cocaine | delusion | delusional parasitosis | joint | paranoia | Paranoid Schizophrenia | persecutory delusions | Physical Abuse of Adult | psychiatrist | Schizophrenia | Shared Psychotic Disorder | suicide | Zoopsia

D.E.B.S.

#debs

Agent Amy explains to criminal Lucy, “And I think that these psychological forces combine to create a kind of emotional void in which you're incapable of loving or being loved.” (0:31)

Amy tells Lucy, “I think love should be irresistible, like a drug.” (0:31)

Ms. Petrie announces the title of Amy’s dissertation: "It's a Man's World: Lucy Diamond and the Psychology of Cultural Criminality." and reads from it, “Lucy Diamond is at once a narcissistic sociopath and...”
Petrie: “You’ve got some dangerous Jungian symbiosis going on.” (0:40)

Amy asks Lucy, ‘Why are you psychoanalyzing me?
Lucy: “I’m not psychoanalyzing you.” (0:54)

Agent Bobby tells Amy, “My dad got this on a drug bust in Malaysia.” (1:07)

Amy tells agent Phipps, “Dominique is a sex addict... Max, well she’s borderline psychotic, but...” (1:13)

Jungian psychoanalysis | psychology | symbiosis

The Paper

#thepaper

Newspaper editor Henry asks his wife Martha, “You’re not going to go nuts again now are you?” (0:05)

Newspaper worker Janet asks Henry "Are you completey psychotic?” (0:07)

Henry tells publisher Bernie, “They found him drunker than a skunk in his neighborhood bar.” (0:18)

Her friend Susan tells Martha, “You have no time to get depressed.” (0:28)

Martha tells Henry he must take the new job, “Because at least you'll be around to fill my Prozac prescriptions. I will need to be medicated, heavily.” (0:37)

Bernie tells his daughter Deanne, “You sound like you just walked out of your shrink’s office.” (0:53)

fluoxetine

The Man with the Golden Arm

#goldenarm

Spoiler alert!

Poker dealer Frankie tells his friend Sparrow, "The monkey's gone." Bar tender Yantek asks Frankie, "Clean?" (0:03)

Frankie tells his heroin supplier Louie, "I kicked." Then he tells Sparrow, "You take even one fix, you're hooked again." (0:05)

Frankie tells his wife Zosch, "I'm clean. I kicked it for keeps." (0:09)

Frankie tells Zosch, "I wanted to keep my mind off the cravings." (0:11)

Frankie tells Zosch, "I'd be hooked again in no time." (0:13)

When no one is looking Zosch stands up from her wheel chair and walks easily. (0:18)

Sparrow tells Louie, "Ain't no 14 year old junkies waitin' around to see me." (0:25)

Musician agent Harry Lane tells Frankie, "They go back on the habit." (0:32)

"Dr." Dominiwsky assures Frankie, "I am a member of the American Association of Medical Hydrology, Psychology and Divine Healing." (0:34)

Louie gets heroin and paraphernalia. Frankie rolls up his sleeve. Louie prepares the syringe. Frankie, with a tourniquet on his arm, injects the heroin." (0:37)

Frankie tells Molly, referring to her friend Johnny, "He's a lush Molly, 100% habitual drunk." (0:48)

Frankie tells Molly, "I guess in the beginning you do it only for kicks."
"I thought I could take it or leave it alone... knew I was hooked... 40# monkey on my back..."
"keep leaning a fix... had my last fix." (0:53)

Zosch stands again. (0:57)

Louie tells Frankie, "I put down a craving once." (1:04)

Frankie displays tremors as he withdraws from heroin. (1:17)

Frankie rolls up his sleeve, hoping for a fix from Louie.
Louie: "A... junkie always says."
Frankie tears the room apart looking for heroin. (1:24)

Louie walks in on Zosch standing, discovers she has faked paraplegia. (1:29)

Frankie tells Molly "I feel so sick Molly. I hurt all over."
Molly: "Jump off a roof if you have to." (1:33)

Frankie asks Molly, "You mean just stop cold turkey?"
Molly, sarcastically: "Why should you hurt like other people hurt?" (1:35)

Frankie: "Kickin'. I guy can't do it by himself... Sometimes a junkie will kill... Don't try to help me with pills or dope..." (1:38)

Sparrow tells detective Bednar, "I ain't got all my marbles." (1:40) Would Sparrow meet criteria for a diagnosis?

Frankie withdraws in Molly's room. (1:41)

Bednar tells Molly, "I promise he'll get every break a junkie can get."
Molly: "He's no junkie..." (1:52)

Zosch walks toward Frankie as Bednar enters. (1:54)

Zosch runs to a railing, throws herself over, and falls to her death." (1:55)

abstinence | addict | addiction | cold turkey | craving | Factitious Disorder | heroin | Opioid Withdrawal | relapse | Substance Dependence | suicide

Read the novel by Algren:

LIttle Voice

#littlevoice

Reclusive singer LV tells electrician Billy, “I don’t go out.” (0:34)

LV remembers her father and record store proprietor, Francis. (0:38)

Agoraphobia | Bereavement | Social Phobia

The Blind Side

@blindsidemovie | Facebook

The film opens with Nick Drake's song 'Cello Song.

Big Tony tells coach Cotton, “His mom’s on that crack pipe.” (0:07)

Mom Leigh Anne asks her husband Sean, “What if we took him to a child psychologist or something?” (0:56)

Pipe and other drug paraphernalia on a coffee table. (1:50)

Athlete Michael tells Leigh Anne, referring to his biological mother, “She was trying to keep me from seeing her do drugs...” (1: 56)

cocaine | drug | psychologist

Read the book by Michael Lewis:

Without Love

#withoutlove

Quentin tells himself, “I’ve gotta go on the wagon. I’ve never heard dogs barking before." (0:09)

Scientist Pat walks in his sleep. (0:21)

on the wagon | Sleepwalking Disorder

We're Not Married

#werenotmarried

Radio personality Ramona tells her husband Steven and producer H. D. Graves, referring to mattresses, "They're the kind they hang on walls in insane asylums." (0:19)

psychiatric hospital

Nathalie

#nathaliemovie

The bar tender driving identifies the music on the car radio as “Joy Division... The singer hung himself... They’re friends of mine.”
Gynecologist Catherine: “Don’t hang yourself." (See Control) (0:57)

suicide