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Aug 28, 2018 · Films like Prozac Nation (2001) and Garden State (2004) bring a younger generation’s perspective, where meds have become everyday brands, modern rehab wards and ‘service users’ have replaced ...
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- Silver Linings Playbook (2012) David O. Russell made this Pennsylvania-set masterpiece about two healing hot messes who fall for each other as something of a gift for his son, who has bipolar disorder and OCD.
- Ordinary People (1980) A turning point for the portrayal of psychotherapy in film, Robert Redford‘s drama about an affluent Chicago family reeling from the accidental death of their son tackles tough topics like PTSD and survivor’s guilt.
- Melancholia (2011) The internal black cloud that is depression doesn’t exactly lend itself naturally to the cinematic. Certainly some films have succeeded in depicting depression on the big screen (see: horror knockout The Babadook for a recent one), but none so purely and spectacularly as Lars von Trier‘s sci-fi drama about two sisters (Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg), one of whom is about to get married, while a rogue planet named Melancholia is about to collide with Earth, sealing our inevitable doom.
- Inside Out (2015) Way-y-y more kid-friendly than Melancholia but not one bit less masterful and exquisite, Disney/Pixar’s candy-colored work about the emotions inside a teenage girl’s head might be the studio’s most relentless tearjerker to date.
Jun 29, 2023 · The new report from Associate Professor of Communication Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative is the third in a series examining mental health representation in popular films. The study, “Mental Health Conditions Across 300 Popular Films,” was also supported by Dr. Christine Yu Moutier, chief medical officer of the ...
Sep 16, 2024 · 10 Best Movies About Mental Health, Ranked. The 10 Best Movies About Mental Health, Ranked. Inside Out (2015) By Justine Kraemer. Published Sep 16, 2024. Thread. Collider. Image by Federico Napoli ...
- ‘Silver Linings Playbook’
- ‘A Beautiful Mind’
- ‘The Great Depresh’
- ‘Love Actually’
- ‘Ordinary People’
- ‘The Perks of Being A Wallflower’
- ‘About A Boy’
In Silver Linings Playbook, viewers follow the lives of Pat Solitano Jr. (Bradley Cooper), who has bipolar disorder, and Tiffany Maxwell (Jennifer Lawrence), who has an unnamed mental health condition. The film opens when Pat is released from a mental health facility after a mandatory eight-month stay for beating up the lover of his wife, Nikki, an...
The 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind is a powerful film about life with a progressive mental health condition. It was inspired by the true story of the Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. and based on the biography of Nash of the same nameby Sylvia Nasar. Though a bit of an outsider, Nash (Russell Crowe) makes a quick ascent to fame f...
Part documentary, part stand-up comedy, The Great Depresh is an HBO special focused on the comedian Gary Gulman’s mental health journey as someone living with depression and anxiety. It’s hilarious and moving all at once, says Brett Wean, the director of writing and entertainment outreach at American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. “This film go...
Although Love Actually is one of the most popular romantic comedies of the past 20 years, many fans may not initially realize it’s a film with scenes about mental illness. The film follows the lives of eight couples in London, England. As Wean points out, the plotline of one of the main characters, Sarah (Laura Linney), revolves around a mental hea...
Directed by Robert Redford, Ordinary Peoplefollows the story of the Jarretts, an upper-middle-class family in Chicago, as they try to regain some sense of normalcy after the accidental death of their eldest son, Buck (Scott Doebler), and the attempted suicide of their younger son, Conrad (Timothy Hutton). The film, which was nominated for six Oscar...
Based on a novel by Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallfloweris about a socially awkward teen named Charlie (Logan Lerman) who is journeying through high school. Unlike many of his peers, Charlie has clinical depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)and is coping with the suicide of his best friend, which happened a year prior. Th...
About a Boystars Hugh Grant as Will Freeman, a wealthy and rather irresponsible 38-year-old man. It’s a nuanced “dramedy” — one that speaks to those who have lived with or care for someone living with a mental health condition. Through a series of silly plot twists, Freeman ends up forging a bond with 12-year-old Marcus Brewer (Nicholas Hoult) whos...
Dec 18, 2023 · 105minutes. Addressing a range of mental health issues, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age film known for its portrayal of depression, anxiety, and trauma. The protagonist, Charlie, navigates the challenges of adolescence while dealing with past trauma and repressed memories.
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Feb 26, 2021 · 3. The Soloist. Matthew Welsh, MS, Ph.D., says this is one of his favorite mental health movies. Starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx, it documents the friendship between a Los Angeles journalist who befriends a schizophrenic, homeless, Julliard-trained musician.
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