Bandits

#banditsmovie

Bank robber Terry: "And I've got symptoms. I don't care what that doctor says." (0:05)

Terry tells bank robber Joe, "Yeah well medication's quicker. It's much more effective." (0:07)

Terry listens to audio tapes about diseases. (0:35)

Terry tells Joe, referring to homemaker Kate, "I may have ended up with a slight concussion, and, two, she's mentally unbalanced to a spectacular degree." (0:42)

Terry tells Kate about, "manic depression, delusion..."
"I don't think you're crazy at all." (0:49)

When Terry and Joe tell bank manager Larry, "We're here to rob your bank." he suddenly falls to the floor. His wife Sarah explains,  "It's a disorder that affects your ability to regulate sleep and wakefulness."
"That's cataplexy, a secondary symptom, sudden loss of voluntary muscle control."
Terry: "Why now?"
Sarah: "Emotional stress is the primary igniter." (0:55)

Larry, opening the vault, "I'm a little nervous."
Joe: "Nothing to be nervous about."
Terry: "You see my body chemistry is extraordinarily sensitive to suggestion. Any symptom can be manufactured given the right circumstances, and that by the way doesn't mean it isn't real."
Larry falls to the floor. (0:56)

Terry, confused: "We should be like restrained."
"I probably have a concussion." (1:06)

Terry tells Kate, "I have food allergies"
"and other phobias..."
"like descriphobia"
"fear of getting smaller. I lost two inches in six months."
"Antique furniture scares me half to death." He goes on to list others then manefests a tic around his left eye. (1:14)

Kate asks Terry how he's feeling. He recites a series of physicial symptoms. (1:26)

Joe tells Terry how his brother experienced olfactory hallucinations resulting from a brain tumor.
Later Terry asks Joe, "Could you look at my pupils, and tell me if they're the same?" (1:28)

Terry explains his juke box selection to Kate, "I have to press A-1 on these things. Its an obsessive compulsive thing." (1:38)

Terry bangs his right hand on the table then swings his right arm as he talks about "right side problems. I've got a brain tumor."
Terry's symptoms progress with slurred speech until he collapses on the floor. Conversion paralysis? He thrashes on the floor, drags himself into a chair.
Terry tells Kate, "I have no right side."
When Kate tells Terry that Joe has no brother, he quickly regains full functioning and coordination. (1:39)

cataplexy | concussion | conversion reaction | heterosuggestion | Hypochondriasis | manic depression | Narcolepsy | paralysis | phobias | tic

In Country

#incountry

High school graduate Sam runs through a cemetery. (0:06)

Sam's uncle and Vietnam veteran Emmett jumps when he hears thunder, then climbs a tree in the rain and lightning.  Flashback to Vietnam? (0:28)

Sam talks to a picture of her father Dwayne who was killed in Vietnam before she was born. (0:38)

Emmett tells Sam his doctor told him, "Mr. Smith, I believe it's all in your head." (0:45)

Sam tells Tom, "My daddy died over there. I want to know what happened to him." (0:48)

Dwayne's parents tell Sam, Emmett and Dwayne's sister about Dwayne's funeral and burial. (1:21)

Sam reads from Dwayne's diary: "Depressed..." (1:25)

Sam's grandmother Mamaw, Emmett, and Sam visit the Vietnam Veterans memorial in Washington, D.C. (1:41)

Bereavement | Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Read the novel by Bobbie Ann Mason:

Inspector Bellamy

#inspectorbellamy

The film opens in a cemetery.

Detective Bellamy tells murder suspect Noël, "Most people who kill get rid of themselves at the same time." (0:51)

Homeless Denis tells Noël, "I wanna die, prick." (0:52)

Noël tells Bellamy, "I couldn't get it up anymore." (0:54)

Bellamy tells his brother Jacques and his wife Françoise, "It's a guy who wants to kill a guy who wants to die."
Jacques tells them, referring to their grandfather, "He was drunk as a skunk." (0:55)

Bellamy asks Claire, "Was your friend Denis suicidal?"
Bellamy: "His father was an alcoholic, too?" (1:01)

Françoise asks Bellamy, "Is that what they call assisted suicide?" (1:04)

A lawyer tells Bellamy, "Leprince wanted to die." (1:36)

Françoise learns in a telephone call that Jacques has been killed in a motor vehicle accident. Did he kill himself? (1:46)

Bereavement | Male Erectile Disorder | suicide

Her Name Is Sabine

#namesabine

The narrator, her sister Sandrine, talks about Sabine: "As a child, she was different and needed special care. Autism and diagnosis weren't an issue then. At 28 she was institutionalized... (0:00)

Sabine exhibits brief combative conduct with staff. (0:03)

Sabine drools. (0:04, 0:28, 0:56, 1:11) Is this likely due to medication?

Narrator regarding Sabine's experience of school: "The taunting made her self-destructive. She'd bite her hands, scratch her face, and take off her clothes in the playground." (0:05)

Sabine combative. (0:10)

Resident Oliver's mother talks about taking his anti-epileptic drugs by mistake. (0:34)

Sabine involuntarily moves her jaw while a nurse takes her monthly blood sample. (0:41) Tardive dyskinesia?

Narrator: "In 1996 after our older brother died... " (0:42)

Narrator: "She became course and started spitting. Her violence was now directed at our mother. She'd pull her hair and hit her in the face. She destroyed everything she loved and ripped up our vacation photos."
"But Sabine continued to be violent... We decided to send her to a psychiatric hospital... given light medication... no specific diagnosis." (0:43)

Sabine gets her medicine in a drink. (0:52)

Sabine's pills organized then given to Sabine. (0:59)

Narrator: "At the hospital Sabine's anxiety grew worse. She'd bang her head on the walls, bruise her skull and self-mutilate. She was locked up, kept in a straitjacket and given high doses of neuroleptics. .. 30 kg heavier... trembled and drooled. Her memory was nearly gone..." (1:02)

Sandrine interviews Sabine's treater: "She displayed mutism... expression of anxiety... She was drooling a lot. Now she drools less and less, even though she's taking fairly large doses of medicine."
"structure to the therapy..." (1:03)

Sabine appears to bite her hand; "I was told you tried to jump out the window." Sabine denies this.
Sabine: "One time I already jumped out the window."
Treater: "She often demonstrates acting-out behavior." (1:05)

Narrator: "She's been diagnosed at last. She is psychoinfantile with autistic behavior... Her medication has been reduced by half. (1:08)

Sabine, again combative, repeatedly asks whether her sister will visit again. (1:13)

"What's the definition of autism?"
Treater: "There are different autisms,... impossibility... to live with others... withdrawal... inability to express anxiety... always hitting against a boundary... A Psychological destructuring. Like you no longer exist. An annihilation of the self." (1:14)

Sabine cries as she watches video of herself on a family trip to America. (1:18)

Narrator: "Is the decline of her abilities inherent to her illness? Will she ever live without medication?" (1:23)

antiepileptic | Autistic Disorder | neuroleptic | self-mutilation

The Truman Show

#trumanshow

Insurance salesman Truman can't get on the ferry. Phobia? (0:08)

Truman recalls losing his father Kirk as a boy in a boating accident. (0:12)

Truman's mother Angela tells Truman, "It doesn't seem insane at all." (0:16)

At the beach Lauren's father (?) tells Truman, referring to Lauren, "Schizophrenia, six episodes, hypnotism, everything, shock therapy." (0:27)

Truman's car radio seems to be talking about him. (0:30)

The television seems to talk about Truman. (0:38)

His wife Meryl tells Truman, "You're having a nervous breakdown." (0:54)

Truman tells his friend Marlon he "Feels like the whole world revolves around me."
"Everybody seems to be in on it." (0:55)

Mike Michaelson tells director Christof, "Truman's been terrified of the water ever since."
Christof explains Kirk's "twenty-two year absence": "Amnesia" (1:04)

Compare Truman's experience to that of Andrew/Teddy in Shutter Island.

delusion | ideas of reference | nervous breakdown | paranoia | phobia | Schizophrenia | shock therapy

Gervaise

#gervaisemovie

Roofer Coupeau comes to the shop of his wife Gervaise drunk. (0:42)

Blacksmith Goujet observes to shopkeeper Gervaise, "Gervaise always wants to please everyone." (1:30) Codependence?

Gervaise: "Drink was killing Coupeau."
She finds Coupeau drunk again, this time in a bar. (1:34)

Delirious Coupeau hallucinates in bed, suffers a breif seizure. Delirium Tremens? Withdrawal seizure? Hallucinosis? (1:47)

Alcohol Intoxication | alcoholism | codependence | Delirium Tremens | hallucination | Substance-Induced Psychotic Disorder | Substance Withdrawal Delirium

Shattered Glass

#shatteredglass

Spoiler alert!

Reporter Steve tells Reporters Amy and Caitlin, "I may have to kill myself." (0:06)

Young Republicans smoking joint. (0:09)

Stephen tells a group of coworkers he "convinced them I was a behavioral psychologist..." (0:20)

Editor Chuck tells Steve, "I just want you to tell me the truth Steve." (1:05)

Caitlin tells Chuck, "He got a little sloppy, and he lied to cover his tracks."
"Obviously, he needs some help." (1:06)

Steve tells ex-editor Michael, "I was so sloppy trusting my sources like that, and then lying about it." (1:09)

Steve tells Chuck, "I'm afraid of what I''m gonna do."
Chuck: "If you feel you''re a danger to yourself..."
Steve: "I'm afraid that I'm gonna do something."
Chuck: "It's a hell of a story." (1:19)

Compare Stephen Glass in this film to Mark Whitacre in The Informant.

behavioral psychologist | pathological liar | sociopathy | suicide

Glass's purportedly autobiographical novel:

Crazy Heart

#crazyheart | Crazy Heart

Country singer Bad shares a joint with the band. (0:09)

The doctor tells Bad, "You're an alcoholic." (0:56)

Bad tells friend and bar owner Wayne, "I want to get sober."
Now in rehab, Bad tells his group (or is it an AA meeting?), "I'm bad. I'm an alcoholic... I was drunk. Been drunk most of my life." (1:31)

Wayne tells Bad, "One day at a time." (1:34)

Bad tells reporter Jean, "I'm sober. Detox, Antabuse, the whole bit." (1:37)

Bad tells Jean, "One day at a time." (1:45)

alcoholic | alcoholism | Antabuse | meetings

Shotguns and Accordions

#shotgunsaccordions

Brass bands play for the dead in the graveyard. (0:01)

References to production and trade in cocaine and marijuana and their influence on the local culture and economy.

Military destroy coca plants. (0:19)

Men use what appears to be a poporo, a small container of lime transferred to the mouth with a stick to enhance absorption of cocaine when chewing coca leaves. (0:20, 0:22)

Guillermo Mejia tells us the drug producers "mixed marijuana with all sorts of..., roots, leaves, horse..., anything that came to hand." (0:28)

Police or military destroy bales of drugs. (0:41)

Bereavement | cannabis | cocaine | cut

I Am Love

#iamlove | I Am Love | Facebook

Emma's mother-in-law Allegra, referring to the loss of her husband, says, off camera, "She... shares my sorrow over Edoardo's death." (0:30)

Emma's son Edo falls in a pool, hitting his head as Emma watches. (1:34)

At the hospital a surgeon tells Emma and Tancredi, "Your son suffered a head injury." and that he has died. Betta learns of her brother's death. Emma's grief leaves her near catatonia. (1:36)

Funeral procession and service. (1:42)

Bereavement

Flesh Gordon

#fleshgordon

At a high level meeting a government official suggests of recent aberrant behavior around the world, "Any fool can see it's a case of mass hypnosis." (3:00)

hypnosis

Things Behind the Sun

#thingsbehind

The film opens with singer Sherry drunk in Carmen's front yard.
Carmen tells a policeman, "Every year she comes here."
The policeman refers to Sherry's "intoxication."

Owen experiences erectile dysfunction. (0:03)

A judge orders Sherry to "attend 30 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in 30 days." (0:06)

Band manager Chuck offers Sherry what she needs for her "hangover." (0:08)

Reporter Lulu tells reporter Owen, "This song is about a rape [the singer] experienced."
Lulu "Her arrest might be symptomatic of..."
Owen: "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder." (0:13)

Lulu tells Owen "He turned out to be a junkie... junkies are so sneaky."
Owen: "I prefer alcoholics to junkies. Alcoholics are more in touch."
"Junkies are people who don't know who they are, whereas alcoholics on the other hand know damn well who they are, and that's why they're drinking: to forget." (0:18)

Owen experiences erectile dysfunction again. (0:20)

Magazine editor Pete asks Owen, "Do I look like a... shrink?" (0:25)

Sherry engages in sex with two men. Does this constitute a repetition compulsion? reenactment of her rape? (0:34)

Sherry asks the band, "Do you think I planned to blackout..?" (0:38)

Partiers smoke joints. Partier Cathy explains that she wants to leave because "I'm very high right now..."
Partier Dan (?), Owen's brother, asks Cathy, "You smoke my dope and just bail?" (0:47)

Sherry tells Owen that Nick Drake influenced her work. (0:55)

Owen tells Sherry "He shot himself." (1:00)

Sherry tells Owen, "I got an AA meeting." (1:06)

Flashback. Is this a cinematic flashback, or Sherry's reexperiencing of the event? (1:07)

Sherry tells Owen, "It's just easier to be with the guys that don't matter... the ones that don't know me."
Sherry, "There's the meeting." (1:09)

At a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous a speaker exhorts those in attendance to "Just take one day at a time.."
An AA member tells Sherry, "Here's a copy of the Big Book and a directory of all the meetings..." (1:13)

Sherry tells Owen, "I don't remember that much about it... pieces missing."
"The only way to get turned on is by acting out the very thing that ruined your life." (1:16)

Sherry tells Owen, "For the past three years in a row I have been busted for showing up at that house."
"No idea why I was drawn there." (1:22)

Dan, smoking a joint, asks Sherry, "You like to get high Sherry?" (1:24)

Sherry returns to the house where she was raped. Carmen, the new occupant of the house, treats her with kindness. (1:40)

At another AA meeting members recite the Serenity Prayer, then "Keep coming back. It works if you work it." (1:46)

Nick Drake sings Things Behind The Sun during closing credits. (1:54)

Alcoholics Anonymous | Big Book | Dissociative Amnesia | Male Erectile Disorder | meetings | Posttraumatic Stress Disorder | repetition compulsion | Serenity Prayer | suicide

Sylvia Scarlett

#sylviascarlett

Sylvia says to herself, "Poor Mama," before her father Henry enters and they discuss her death. (0:02)

Sylvia, dressed as a man (as she is during most of the remainder of the film), gets kicked out of a ladies room. (0:06)

Henry translates from Sylvia's French, "His father being a hopeless drunkard..." (0:18)

After experessing jealous delusions Henry hallucinates a rat. (1:12)

Sylvia sees her father's lifeless body at the bottom of the cliffs. (1:15)

Sylvia tells Monk, after rescuing Lilly from the surf, "She was ready to die." (1:22)

Sylvia tells Michael, "She tried to drown herself."
Michael, referring to Monk: "Is he a lunatic?" (1:23)

Bereavement | cross-dressing | delusion | hallucination | suicide

Read the novel by Compton Mackenzie:

Easter Parade

#easterparade

Law student Johnny tells dancer Don, "If you'll forgive me I have a normal psychology exam." (0:32)

In a telephone conversation dancer Hannah tells Johnny, "You don't know how depressed he's been these past few weeks." (1:01)

depression | psychology

Horrors of the Black Museum

#blackmuseum

Commissioner Wayne tells Graham and Lodge, "There's no doubt we're dealing with a brilliant maniac." (0:08)

Dr. Ballan tells writer Bancroft, "I shall have to put you under sedation."
Bancroft: "I can't pamper myself with tranquilizers and sedatives..." (0:09)

Dr. Ballan tells his nurse regarding Bancroft: "The pupils of his eyes were noticably very small, although I am convinced he does not take drugs... I suspect he is the victim of some aberation which is driving him from a sane and normal mental base. I feel he is in definite need of psychiatric treatment and should be hospitalized..." (0:18)

His mistress Joan, talking to Bancroft, refers to "this new maniac." (0:19)

A jailer tells Wayne and Graham, referring to prisoner Rivers, "Since the war he's been in and out of three mental institutions. Schizophrenia, but he's harmless."
Commissioner Wayne: "I suppose we'd better have him committed to a hospital, quietly." (0:38)

Graham tells Bancroft, "Rivers has a mental disorder... For his own good he's being confined to a mental institution... I am quite sure the last thing in the world a psychiatrist would prescribe for his cure is more publicity." (0:49)

Dr. Ballan tells Bancroft, "but out of consideration for our relationship, which is a privileged one, doctor and patient, I came to you... I'll explain your aberation until an accredited psychiatrist can confirm it... You must be put away... I know you're mad... I've dealt with deranged persons before."
Bancroft: "It's a pity you won't indulge a madman one moment longer. (0:51)

Bancroft prepares a syringe, injects his assistant Rick in his arm. Holding the bottle of liquid Bancroft tells Rick, "This is the most valuable. It makes reality out of legend, truth out of myth." (1:03)

Perhaps Bancrot has used a drug like amobarbital to induce an hypnotic trance in Rick making him vulnerable to post-hypnotic suggestion.

narcosynthesis | post-hypnotic suggestion | privileged communication | Schizophrenia | sedative

Nine

#ninemovie

Movie director Guido converses with the embodiment of his deceased mother. (0:09)

Dr. Rondi tells Guido, after his mistrees Carla has overdosed in an apparent suicide gesture, "She took five or six pills, enough to make her sick."
Guido tells Carla, "I'm not worth dying for Carla." (1:08)

Bereavement | overdose | suicide

Read the musical by Arthur kopit:

Kira's Reason: A Love Story

#kirasreason

Spoiler alert!

A sign reads "Psychiatric Ward." (0:01)

Mother Kira tells her husband Mads, "You've got an age phobia." (0:12)

Kira loses control at a public pool. Would you suspect Borderline Personality Disorder? (0:30)

Kira cries as Mads takes the boys. She starts drinking, dancing. (0:37)

Mads tells Kira, "You're sick"
Kira: "I'm not sick."
"I'm bored. I'm bored. I'm bored with you." (0:50)

A guest at the dinner party tells Kira, "I have a son who's mad."
Kira "I'm just a little bit mad."
Guest: "My son is completely mad." (1:01)
Guest: "My son is very sick... I feel I've lost him... I try to help him and he doesn't want help." (1:04)

Kira writes a letter to Mads on a paper tablecloth: "Mads. I'm afraid that I'll disappear... I miss the girl I used to be... It's impossible to live with me... She only lived for three days. When we buried her, I took your hand but you pulled away from me. You wouldn't hold my hand. Why not. She was so tiny... I screamed... She was stuck inside me. But you wouldn't talk about it... too busy... I'm leaving you now... your mad wife, Kira." (1:08)

Mads tells Kira, "When she died they gave us tea." (1:20)

Could a psychotherapist have helped bring this couple together again after the loss of their child? Which partner would most likely seek help?

Bereavement | Borderline Personality Disorder

Family Law

#familylawmovie

Family Law, like Panic, features a boy whose father and grandfather shared professions but not ethics. If movies were mental disorders, Panic might meet criteria for Panic Disorder, while Family Law might fall just short of Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

Teaching his law class professor Ariel refers to the case of a "pop singer accused of sexually abusing minors..." (0:05)

Ariel says of his father, attorney Bernardo, "He has an area of his memory that's strictly short term." (0:56)

A father at Ariel's son Gastón's school says, "I have a degree in music therapy." (1:02)

Bernardo's assistant Norita tells Ariel his father has died. Funeral service. (1:16)

How might Ariel's relationship with Bernardo affect Gastón?

Bereavement | multigenerational perspective

Permanent Midnight

#permanentmidnight

Opening scene: Writer Jerry's voice, talking to recovering addict Kitty: "Smack is like the leisure suit of the nineties." Jerry, sitting on a toilet, injects his arm using his belt as a tourniquet."
"OD'ing in the rec room."
"Traded my cumberbund for two bags and a rig."
"You ever read that interview with William Burroughs where they asked him why he shot heroin? He said, 'so I could get up in the morning and shave.'"
"Gettin' 'm bounced out of rehab?" (0:00)

Kitty asks fast food cook Jerry, "Hey, you're one of those rehab patients, aren't you?"
"You're too sad looking to be just another reatard in a pink visor." (0:02)

Jerry: "I wish I was high."
"I've never done this straight before. "Trust me, with smack I was a real stud."
Kitty: "The first time anybody touched me after I got clean, I thought, Jesus that's why I needed drugs."
Kitty: "hit the needle and ended up in rehab."
Jerry: "The TV geek part is just a little side effect... I thought, I'll move out to California and get away from drugs."
Kitty: "You went to LA to get away from drugs?"
Jerry talks about Nicky who was "kind of a drug buddy... I was popping so many of his pills..." (0:03)

Jerry and Nicky lighting a bong. (0:07)

Kitty: "Were you getting high?"
Jerry smokes a joint while he works. (0:13)

Jerry takes some pills from a prescription bottle. 14

Voice from television: "Suicide is one of the great mysteries of our time. When Warren Stahl took his own life...." funeral in black and white on television show. (0:14)

Jerry takes more pills from a prescription bottle in the medicine cabinet. (0:16)

Kitty: "What about... doing coke in limos all night..."
Jerry: "Try... eating his pain killers..." (0:18)

Nicky: "Where are my pills... Percodan? They're gone."
"If I was Percodan where would I be?"
"Benny comes in, steals the drugs... high as a kite."
Jerry's sister leaves him a message that his mother died. (0:18)

Bar patron Dagmar removes a plastic bag of syringes from a box. She injects Jerry then herself. (0:23)

Kitty tells Jerry, "I went clean."
"You're what, fifty days clean? That's nothing. You're still a... junkie. That's why you have to go back to rehab..." (0:26)

Jerry with needle in his arm.
Kitty: "You shoot heroin and run five miles?" (0:28)

Jerry cooking his fix with a syringe in his mouth. Dealer Dita removes a tourniquet from her bare arm. (0:30)

Kitty tells Jerry, "This from a man who shot up black tar."
Jerry: "blow all of it on dope and cop a habit the size of Utah."
Sandra interrupts Jerry shooting up in a toilet. (0:33)

Jerry shoots up in the toilet again, nods. He hallucinates Mr. Chompers voice, then Mr. Chompers head poking in the door." (0:36)

Jerry tells Kitty "It was getting to the point where I had to shoot six bags to turn on the... typewriter... Dita couldn't keep up with my habit."
Jerry shooting in a stairwell. (0:39)

Production assistant Sandra brings Jerry drugs she had hidden from him. (0:41)

Actress Pamela tells Jerry, "Everything I made when I was young I either drank away, snorted up my nose..."
"I want you to write for my show if you can get clean." (0:45)

Dr. Lazarus asks Jerry, "Think you can kick?"
"Methadone'll get rid of the shakes, but you're basically trading one habit for another one."
"How long you been using?"
"Twenty one day detox. Show up here once a week and piss in a cup." (0:46)

Dealer Gus shows Jerry a bottle of crack cocaine. (0:47)

Jerry smokes crack in a pipe with dealer Gus, both subsequently display intoxicated behavior. (0:48)

Gus tells Jerry, "Look what I got you." He hands him a prescription bottle.
Jerry: "What's that?"
Gus: "Dilaudid." (0:52)

Jerry puts pills into liquid in a bottle, shakes it, draws the solution into a syringe, nods. (0:54)

Jerry tells Kitty, "I was pretty much intoxicated the whole nine months." Jerry shoots up while sitting on a toilet. (0:56)

Jerry tells Kitty, "One night she called when I was Jonesing like a lab rat (1:00)

Jerry shoots up in a car while his baby watches. Unable to find a vein in his arm he injects his jugular vein. (1:05)

Men share a joint in the back of a bus. (1:11)

Jerry tells Sandra he's "never seen LA straight before." (1:12)

Talk show host explains about Jerry: "He had a $6,000 a month heroin and cocaine habit... out of the depths of his habit."
Jerry: "I'd come bouncing in with my heroin and syringes."
"That's what you do when you're a junkie. Your number one job is to shoot junk."
"Heroin abuser" Damian admits to "the damage with heroin."
Jerry alludes to "the worst 3AM narcotic hell."
Talk show host introduces "Jerry Stahl, junkie." (1:20)

addict | addiction | Bereavement | cocaine | Cocaine Intoxication | drug testing | hallucination | heroin | hydromorphone | joint | methadone | Opioid Withdrawal | oxycodone | suicide

Read the autobiography by Jerry Stahl himself:

Narc

#narcmovie

Spoiler alert!

Brief close up of a hand drawing liquid into two syringes from a steaming pie tin on a stove.  (0:01)

Official Mitchum tells detective Nick he "maintained prolonged contact with the city's drug element." (0:08)

Police captain Cheevers reminds Nick, "He'd been on collateral narcotic investigations..." (0:14)

Crackhead asks Nick and detective Henry, "Can I get a quick hit?" He uses a glass crack pipe (close ups). (0:26)

Close up of a glass bong broken on the floor. (0:30)

Close up shows glass bong in foreground. Nick suggests to Henry and medical examiner Art,  "He was high out of his... mind. He reaches for the bong... takes a little green bud... starts tokin' away."
Henry: "smokin' some bud." (0:32)

Close up of man injecting his arm. Nick's wife Audrey tells him what it was like "being in a detox tank with you... watchin' you climb the walls..." (0:33)

Henry tells Nick about his wife's death: "I lost her... cancer."
"It was a diversion. Just a way to keep from thinking about her... [suspect was] selling meth out of his apartment. It was just a stop 'n' pop. I was in one of the back rooms looking for junk."
He finds a "little girl being abused." (0:37)

Nick tells detective Calvess' widow Kathryn, "I worked undercover narcotics for two and a half years."
Kathryn tells Nick about the day she was informed her husband was dead. (0:45)

Nick reads a crime scene evidence inventory from a file: "drugs recovered... heroin... Dextrogilphin, Phencyclidine, Lysergic Acid, Amonia-Sodium."
Cinematic flashback to the two syringes and pie tin from the opening scene. (0:51)

Nick tells Henry about the drugs: "It's burn back. It's like a table scrap...  that they stew in a freebase and then shoot."
"About ten months ago an overdose was brought into the ER." (0:52)

Dealer Sheps' voice off camera: "I need my dope."
Nick: "You still sniffing glue?"
"ask you about another dead junkie..."
Shep: "I used to smoke blunt wit' you."
Nick: "They found smack at the murder scene." (0:53)

Commissioner Franks tells Nick and Henry, referring to Shep "This is Someone with questionable mental stability and a pronounced history of drug use."
"with a drug tie... possession of... narcotics." (0:59)

Dealer Darnell tells Henry, "He's a... junkie, man." (1:16)

Darnell tells Nick, referring to Calvess, "He got strung out man."
"We kept him high."
"no... junkie trying to be a cop." (1:20)

Nick tells Henry, referring to Calvess' wife? "You bailed her out of rehab lots of times."
He calls Calvess a "needle ridden junkie."
"He was a... addict." (1:29)

Nick tells Henry he killed Calvess "because he was a junkie."
Henry: "They made him a junkie." (1:34)

While Henry watches helplessly as Calvess points his revolver at his head and fires. (1:36)

addiction | Bereavement | cannabis | cocaine | heroin | inhalant | LSD | narcotic | phencyclidine | suicide

Moulin Rouge

#moulinrougemovie

Sign reads "Bar Absinthe." (0:05)

Bohemian writer Christian tells us, "Unfortunately the unconscious Argentinian suffered from a sickness called narcolepsy." Do the glasses of green liquid atop a piano represent Absinthe? (0:06, 1:22)

Ice water is poured over sugar cubes on glasses of Absinthe.
Christian: "I would taste my first glass of Absinthe." Christian drinks, followed by the others. The label from a bottle of Absinthe flashes on the screen. The green fairy (La Fée Verte) talks to him, flies off the label, sings and dances. (0:10)

A glass of absinthe sits on a table (0:14, 0:16)

Brief shot of a hookah. (0:40)

A sign on the side of a building reads "Absinthe Fée Verte." (0:43)

Artist Toulouse-Lautrec drinks Absinthe. (1:18, 1:22)

Atress Satine dies in Chrisian's arms. He mourns. (1:56)

Absinthe | Bereavement | hookah | Narcolepsy

The Bridge

#thebridge

Video footage of those who have jumped, a few who have stopped them and interviews with friends, family, and one who jumped but survived.

Footage of people jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge. (0:03, 0:56, 1:04, 1:19)

A kite surfer describes the irony of pursuing his favorite pleasure while "This person's ending their life." (0:05)

A photographer grabs a woman as she prepares to jump. (0:40 )

Indistinct footage of something falling from the bridge. (1:20, 1:21)

Lisa

Lisa's mother Rachel: "We went through all the counselors and finally got her to go a psychiatrist... a paranoid schizophrenic..." (10:00)

Rachel says Lisa was "off her medication."
Lisa's sister Tara: "Being a schizophrenic... like having 44 channels on at the same time." A friend "jumped off the bridge." (0:14)

Rachel: "That's the last we saw her." (0:18)

Tara says of her brother: "He doesn't believe she committed suicide."
Rachel calls her suicide "a relief for her [Lisa]." (0:21)

Philip

Philip's mother Mary: "I think the medicines made him worse."
Philip's father Wally: "He tried it a few times.... some people believe suicide's a sin." (0:24)

Wally tells us Philip wanted to "hang himself or have the policemen shoot him." He talks about his son's grandparents: "My father was alcoholic. Hers was alcoholic." (0:33)

Gene

Gene's friend: "I'm going to just shoot myself. I'm gonna do it with a bow and arrow." (0:26)

Gene's friend: "He told his mother he wanted to kill himself."
Gene's friend quotes him: "Now I can finally end it all." (0:31)

Gene's friend refers to Gene's mother: "She too was depressed." (0:45)

Gene jumps from the bridge. (1:29)

Kevin

Kevin says he entertained "Ideas of suicide... before I was diagnosed... oh I'll just kill myself."
His father Pat says Kevin "had huge mood swings... very high or very low."
Kevin describes "hallucinating... bugs in my bed... hallucinations to become greater and greater... suicide letter..."
Pat recalls a "terrible episode... hearing voices... I called the psychiatrist."
Kevin: "I knew I was going to the bridge and jump... I just wanted to die..."
Kevin describes how he changed his mind as jumped and how he survived. (0:47)

Pat describes the "extreme mental illness.... confined for almost 3 months... bipolar... drug therapy." (0:58)

"We started using crystal meth... Using crystal everything started going down the toilet... I have a very addictive personality." (1:01)

Ruby

Ruby's friend says he "never would have said Ruby had a significant depression problem." (1:09)

Ruby's friend tells of a conversation that ended with her giving her her own medication: "I want some meds... antidepressant meds... here, you can have mine." (1:11)

Ruby's friend says she thought, "He's not just depressed. He wants to kill himself." She says he told her, "Not sleeping making me crazy... I'm thinking about killing myself..." She says she asked him, "Do you have a plan?" to which he replied, "I'd overdose... What about people who shoot themselves?" She says she told him, "Anyway you are not in the category of people that get to kill themselves." (1:15)

David

David's friend Gordon theorizes about him "self-medicating with alcohol... David would... start treatment... antidepressants." (1:10)

Jim

Jim's father says he told him he would "just have to commit hara kiri" and that he "had been contemplating sucide." (1:12)

antidepressant | self-medication | suicide | suicide by cop

Skin

#skinmovie

Shopkeeper Abraham tells his wife Sannie, "If I ever find them here I will kill them and then myself." (1:12)

suicide

Winter's Bone

#wintersbone

Spoiler alert!  

Sheriff Baskin tells Ree, referring to her father Jessup's likely involvement in methamphetamine production, "Looks like he's been cookin' again." (0:08)

Her friend Victoria tells Ree "Here's a doobie for your walk." (0:18)

Ree tells neighbor Megan about Jessup: "He cooks crank."
Megan: "If Arthur's been runnin' around crank for a day or two you should just leave..." (0:20)

Her uncle Teardrop offers Ree some of his white powder in plastic bag and snorts a tiny spoon of it. He asks if whether "Them pills help your mama's mood any?" (0:43)

Ree's mother appears depressed, does not respond to her. (0:45)

Her neighbor Sonia tells Ree, "These are painkillers." She hands her a prescription bottle. (1:01)

Teardrop uses his spoon to snort powder. (1:16)

Ree finds Jessup's body. (1:23)

Sherrif Baskin tells Ree, "I'll bet your dad'd still be here if he was just growin' his marijuana." (1:27)

Bereavement | depression | joint | methamphetamine

Read the novel by Daniel Woodrell:

The Game

#thegame

Spoiler alert!

His brother Conrad tells banker Nicholas, "I used to buy crystal meth off the Maître d'."
Conrad: "How long has it been since Mom's funeral?"
Nicholas: "Not since family week at rehab."
Nicholas: "Are you still on medication?"
Conrad: "I'm not even seeing a shrink." (0:05)

A young boy sees someone standing on a roof. (0:09)
A man jumps from the roof. We later learn Nicholas watched his father jump to his death. (0:12) Flashbacks?

CRS worker Feingold hands Nicholas a clipboard:  "A couple of psych tests there, the MMPI and the PAP."
Nicholas reads a test item: "I sometimes hurt small animals. True or False." (0:15)

In another brief flashback Nicholas finds what appears to be a body, but is a manakin with the face of a clown. (0:25)

Senior news commentator Daniel Schorr converses with Nicholas from the television. How well might this portray ideas of reference associated with Schizophrenia. (0:26)

Shots of psychological tests using True - False items, videos and pictures. Nicholas wired to EEG. (0:17)

Close up of mirror with cocaine and razor blade. (0:57)

When Nicholas enters he finds his home crudely redecorated. Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) sings White Rabbit: "You've just had some kind of mushroom..." Nicholas reads a note: "Like my father before me I choose eternal sleep." (1:05)

Nicholas asks Conrad, "What are you on?" (1:10)

Nicholas asks domestic Ilsa, "What was my father like, Ilsa?"
Ilsa: "Nobody expected it." (apparently referring to his father's suicide) (1:17)

Waitress Christine tells Nicholas they used the psych info to steal money from him. (1:27)

Nicholas loses consciousness or is paralyzed, apparently drugged. (1:31)

Nicholas awakens in a coffin in a crypt in a cemetery in Mexico. (1:33)

A hotel manager tells Nicholas that Conrad suffered a nervous breakdown." (1:41)

Feingold in a television ad appears to talk to Nicholas who then finds a picture of him hanging on the wall in a restaurant. (1:43)

Believing he has killed Conrad, Nicholas appears to jump to his death. (1:55)

Conrad presents Nincholas with  a T-shirt: "I was drugged and left for dead in Mexico..." (1:57)

The film closes to Slick singing, "One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small..."

Compare this "corrective emotional experience" to psychotherapy.

Bereavement | corrective emotional experience | electroencephalogram | ideas of reference | MMPI | nervous breakdown | psychological testing | suicide

Hamlet 2

#hamlet2

His wife Brie tells drama teacher Dana,  "I'm gonna go back to dealin' pot."
Dana: "I'm not going to have you dealing drugs." (0:05)

Dana tells the waiter he is "seven years sober."
Brie tells Dana, "I'd blow my brains out..." (0:14)

Dana asks the class what stops someone from "wrapping his lips around a .45 and just blowing his brains out?" (0:18)

Drama student Chuy's character asks in rehearsal, "You call me a drunk?"
Octavio talks about "Getting drunk and beating up on a little boy. (0:29)

Drama student Epiphany tells Dana, "Mr. Marshz, these guys are drunk."
Dana: "I haven't had a drink in seven years. Got the chip on my key chain to prove it from an organization called AA... beer, liquor, dope, coke, meth." He then appears intoxicated, apparently from mango iced tea laced with a drug by the students. (0:33)

Dana tells the drama class: "First of all, acid is a very strong drug." He then tells drama student Rand how factors, "... not to mention the acid, inspired me to..." (0:35)

Dana tells Octavio's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marquez, "If Hamlet had had just a little bit of therapy he could have turned the whole thing around." (0:40)

Drama student Vitamin J tells Dana, "My buddy's meth lab burned down." (0:50)

Dana drinks, relapsing. (1:00)

Dana tells the liquor store clerk, "I feel like Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas." (1:01)

Drama student Ivonne tells Chuy and Epiphany, "I really think Mr. Marshz is bipolar, just like my cousin..."
Octavio: "He's not bipolar, he's a freak"
Dana tells the class, "Which is why I skate... That and the DUI." (1:02)

Dana tells Chuy, "I'm still a little drunk." (1:07 )

Rand tells Dana (?), "I've been going to a shrink five days a week, and I've started on antidepressants..." (1:09)

The cast sings: "Therapy's taken me to a better place... "
"maybe the wrong medication"
"to hear this oral fixation of mine." (1:10)

The cast sings "Rock Me Sexy Jesus: "and we stopped smoking weed, at least not as much..." (1:13)

Dana tells ACLU attorney Cricket, "I was thinking about all those voices saying you can't do it."
Cricket: "That's psychosis." (1:23)

Alcoholics Anonymous | antidepressant | cannabis | DWI | oral | relapse | sobriety | suicide