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Nov 6, 2017 · The film offers a refreshingly holistic view of Laing—emphasizing his revolutionary existentialist approach to human suffering while admitting his personal and moral shortcomings. Revolutionary...
Apr 4, 2017 · Film review by Markie Robson-Scott “What if I’ve made a terrible mistake?” Angie (a flirty, engaging Elizabeth Moss) is about to give birth to psychiatrist RD Laing’s baby, and you have to agree that it’s not the wisest plan.
- ‘He Tried to Do Something Different’
- The Real R.D. Laing
- Working with David Tennant
Laing, by then in his late 30s, was already known for The Divided Self, a book which aimed to make mental illness comprehensible to a mainstream audience, but his Kingsley Hall idea would put him at loggerheads with the conventional wisdom of the time. “He tried to have a dozen or so people in a house, who were considered a danger to themselves and...
In the 1980s he wrote to Laing because he wanted to “write his life story”. And far from the perception of the fast-living hell-raiser, he found an ageing Laing at peace – if not materialistically wealthy – living in a small apartment in Austria. “He’d just stopped drinking. So to me he was just a calm, intellectual, humourous man,” Mullan recalls....
When the film was revived, Mullan says the casting was like a jigsaw puzzle: “You have to get one big, firm piece in place. And that piece was David Tennant. Once he got involved it was much easier to get the others.” Of course, the Broadchurch star was able to consult Mullan about the real Laing, although their goal was never to mimic the psychiat...
Mad to Be Normal is a 2017 British drama film directed by Robert Mullan and written by Robert Mullan and Tracy Moreton. The film stars David Tennant, Elisabeth Moss, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Gambon, David Bamber, Olivia Poulet and Trevor White.
Mad to Be Normal: Directed by Robert Mullan. With Michael Gambon, David Tennant, Elisabeth Moss, Gabriel Byrne. During the 1960s, a renegade Scottish psychiatrist courts controversy within his profession for his approach to the field, and for the unique community he creates for his patients to inhabit.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Robert Mullan
- 2017-04-06
Feb 28, 2017 · New film Mad To Be Normal, starring David Tennant, had its premiere as the closing gala of the Glasgow Film Festival on Sunday. It tells the story of famous Scottish psychiatrist RD...
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Jun 15, 2020 · Mad to Be Normal — FILM REVIEW. Fact and fiction combine disturbingly in a very well acted film. Elisabeth Moss, David Tennant and Gabriel Byrne.
