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18 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

the best depiction of mental illness that i've ever seen -by far- was in that episode of Dave where Gata has a manic/bipolar breakdown. that episode is the gold standard for depicting this particular illness in a realistic light, from beginning to end. i found it be a very impactful episode of television, and i'd recommend that episode to anyone who's dealt with this sort of thing.

That guy is Lil dicky’s real-life hypeman & he really is bipolar. Great episode.

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The Aviator. The scene with Alan Alda as Senator Brewster where he serves Howard Hughes a glass with a fingerprint on it was so well done. Shows on one hand a brilliant Howard Hughes, nearly foiled by an imperfection. The obsessiveness that drives greatness can also correlate with mental illness.

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Has anyone watched Manic, it was from 2001 and had Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zoey Deschanel. I watched it a long time and remember very little about it besides it being set in a mental institution and it being pretty good.

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Sybil  (Sally Field & Joanne Woodward)

What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp & Leonardo DiCaprio)  mental disability

The Soloist (Jamie Foxx & Robert Downey Jr)

 

Does The Omen count?

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Josh Lucas had an interview where he was out of the loop on the direction Bale took for the role and thought he was untalented and stiff. He just didnt get the memo that Bale was playing an especially hollow person. It wasnt until the screening until he got it.

Lucas and the other talented actors were somewhat charismatic and all narcissistic, 80’s bad boys. Bale was playing a sociopath who attempted to be them but unable to pull it off fully. The director believed that sociopaths were naturally unfunny, though they could fake it for a short while by mimicking when necessary.

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