| Movie List - Personality Disorders |
| At Close Range |
| Genre: | Drama | Year: | 1986 | Rating: | R |
| Actors: | Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson |
| Topics: | Personality Disorder |
| Movie about a son's (Sean Penn) relationship (or lack thereof) with his clearly psychopathic father |
| (Christopher Walken). Based on a true story. [Suggested by Laura Cronin, Marywood University, |
| PA] |
| Bad Timing |
| Genre: | Drama | Year: | 1980 | Rating: | R |
| Actors: | Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel |
| Topics: | Personality Disorder, Suicide, Sexual Obsession |
| This modern film-noir type movie has been hated by some - e.g., the original distribution company |
| removed its logo and called it "a sick movie made by sick people for sick people." Well, I didn't |
| think it was THAT bad - I've certainly seen worse, but I'm not inclined to watch it again. The film |
| is told through a series of flashbacks interspersed with current time, making it a bit hard to follow. |
| By the end, though, you have a sense of where the psychopathologies lie. In addition to the |
| personality disorder issues, what about the psychiatrist's blatant disregard for confidentiality and |
| the inappropriate use of testing? If he is a "research psychoanalyst" in Vienna, does that change |
| the ethics requirement, even if he most likely was trained in the United States? |
| Being There |
| Genre: | Comedy | Year: | 1979 | Rating: | PG |
| Actors: | Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas |
| Topics: | Personality Disorder |
| Academy Award winner for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. Very funny and interesting film |
| about a gardener (Peter Sellers) whose only exposure to the "real world" outside the wall around |
| the grounds he keeps comes from television. What does it say about our society? Any obvious |
| diagnosis of the gardener (or us?!)? |
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