Friday, December 28, 2007
Movie List - G, PG, or PG-13
Agnes of God
Genre: Drama Year: 1985 Rating: PG-13
Actors: Jane Fonda, Meg Tilly, Anne Bancroft
Topics: Treatment, Psychosis, Forensic
Meg Tilly as a novice nun who became pregnant and the baby is found strangled in the cloistered
convent. Jane Fonda as the psychiatrist appointed to determine if Tilly is mentally competent to
stand trial.[Suggested by Nell Stewart]
Anywhere But Here
Genre: Drama Year: 1999 Rating: PG-13
Actors: Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman, Hart Bochner
Topics: Personality Disorder
I saw this film on an airplane - not outstanding, but I didn't take off my headphones! Susan
Sarandon portrays a mother "who knows best" with a teenage daughter "who knows better" as
they move from a small town to Beverly Hills. The mother clearly has a mixed personality picture
- histrionic, dependent, borderline?
As Good As It Gets Favorite
Genre: Drama/Comedy Year: 1997 Rating: PG-13
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Greg Kinnear, Helen Hunt
Topics: OCD, Personality Disorder
Academy Award winner for Best Actor and Best Actress. Jack Nicholson with Obsessive-
Compulsive Disorder, as well as plenty of Axis II. Really great movie.
Awakenings Favorite
Genre: Drama Year: 1990 Rating: PG-13
Actors: Robin Williams, Robert DeNiro, Julie Kavner
Topics: Neuropsychology, Treatment
Wonderful movie. Based on Oliver Sacks' clinical cases. L-dopa's effects on encephalitis lethargica.
Interesting glimpse inside a mental hospital in the 1960s. Why do you think paranoia/psychosis
developed after prolonged L-dopa treatment? Neuronal supersensitivity?

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