Added by GemLil on 10 Mar 2008 11:16

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Mental Illness Movies

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Decade: Rating: List Type:

280

6.9

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

GemLil's rating:

3443

6.9

7.5

The Aviator (2004)

Name: Howard Hughes
Disorder: Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Special gift: Aviation

GemLil's rating:

994

7.3

7.8

Awakenings (1991)

4849

7.6

8.2

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Name: John Nash
Disorder: Schizophrenia
Special gift: Mathematics

GemLil's rating:

965

7.1

Benny & Joon (1993)

Name: Joon
Disorder: Schizophrenia
Special Gift: Art
Description: Joon has a tendency to start fires which worries her older brother, Benny, to such an extent as to take away most of her life's freedoms. Joon feels oppressed thus and only acts out even more.

Name: Sam
Disorder: Unknown
Special gift: Humor
Description: Joon is eccentric and a true comedian. He sees the world from an artist's perspective, which helps him to bond with Joon - maybe a little too closely for Benny's taste.

GemLil's rating:

256

7.2

6.9

Chocolate (2008)

Name: Zen
Disorder: Autism
Special gift: Martial arts

6263

8.2

8.3

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

GemLil's rating:

5.8

5.9

Crazy People (1990)

5834

7.7

Donnie Darko (2001)

GemLil's rating:

171

6.8

6.3

Enduring Love (2004)

GemLil's rating:

964

6.5

6.9

Fatal Attraction (1987)

GemLil's rating:

9314

8.3

8.8

Fight Club (1999)

Name: Norton
Disorder: Multiple personality disorder/Schizophrenia

GemLil's rating:

9484

7.9

8.8

Forrest Gump (1994)

Name: Forrest Gump
Disorder: Mental retardation
Special gift: Ping pong

GemLil's rating:

3323

7.4

7.3

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

GemLil's rating:

1883

5.4

5.8

Gothika (2003)

GemLil's rating:

1978

7.4

7.6

I Am Sam (2002)

Name: Sam Dawson
Disorder: Developmental disability

GemLil's rating:

1436

6.8

7.4

K-PAX (2001)

GemLil's rating:

216

7.1

7.2

The Madness of King George (1994)

GemLil's rating:

3084

6.6

Me, Myself & Irene (2000)

GemLil's rating:

725

5.8

6.1

Mercury Rising (1998)

GemLil's rating:

2110

7.5

7.8

Misery (1990)

GemLil's rating:

214

6.3

6.9

Mozart and the Whale (2006)

5.1

5.8

Molly

5.7

5.8

Mr. Jones (1993)

GemLil's rating:

422

6.1

Nim's Island (2008)

Name: Alexandra Rover
Disorder: Obsessive-compulsive disorder/Schizophrenia
Special gift: Writing

4466

8.5

8.7

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

GemLil's rating:

1544

6.4

6.8

One Hour Photo (2002) (2002)

GemLil's rating:

100

5.8

6.2

Personal Effects (2009)

285

7.3

7.1

Phoebe in Wonderland (2008) (2008)

Name: Phoebe Lichten
Disorder: Tourette Syndrome

386

6.7

Pollock (2000) (2000)

GemLil's rating:

612

6.4

6.3

Prozac Nation (2003)

GemLil's rating:

4211

8.3

8.5

Psycho (1960)

GemLil's rating:

208

6.1

Pumpkin (2004)

Name: Pumpkin Romanoff
Disorder: Mental retardation

381

6.7

6.9

Radio (2003)

Name: James Robert "Radio" Kennedy
Disorder: Mental retardation

3611

7.6

Rain Man (1988)

Name: Raymond Babbitt
Disorder: Autism
Special gift: Mathematics

GemLil's rating:

1059

7.7

Repulsion (1965)

633

6.1

Running with Scissors (2006)

GemLil's rating:

3239

6.6

6.5

Secret Window (2004)

GemLil's rating:

6535

8.2

8.4

The Shining (1980)

GemLil's rating:

4394

7.7

8.2

Shutter Island (2010)

GemLil's rating:

6610

8.2

8.6

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

GemLil's rating:

638

7.6

Sling Blade (1997)

Name: Karl Childers
Disorder: Mental retardation
Special gift: Mechanics
Description: Karl Childers was sent to a mental institution since he was a child up until his being an older adult at the time of Sling Blade's beginning for killing his mother's lover - who he caught with his mom and thought was raping her - with a kaiser blade. He has a thick Southern accent and is a faithful Christian. When he gets out he finds himself bonding with a young boy named Frank Wheatley as well as his mother Linda, and her gay friend Vaughan. Childers becomes protective of the rest of the group from Linda's boyfriend Doyle's mean personality.

639

6.6

6.7

The Soloist (2009)

Name: Nathaniel Ayers
Disorder: Schizophrenia
Special gift: Music

183

8.1

8.3

Temple Grandin (2010)

2812

8.1

8.2

There Will Be Blood (2007)

GemLil's rating:

7.4

7.2

The Three Faces of Eve (1957)

GemLil's rating:

456

5.8

6.3

Throw Momma from the Train (1987)

GemLil's rating:

3498

6.5

The Village (2004)

Name: Noah Percy
Disorder: Developmental disability

GemLil's rating:

2606

7.5

7.7

What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

Name: Arnie Grape
Disorder: Developmental disability

GemLil's rating:

These movies have important characters with neurological impairments. In the notes more detail is gone into. I apologize if the term "Mental retardation" offends anyone - I mean only to give the generalized term that covers that particular disorder.

If anyone knows of some more or has any general critique of this list, do not hesitate to comment.

--Pumpkinate