Titles tagged with ‘mental illness’
7 titles - sorted by title / by year
Angel Baby (1995)
Harry (John Lynch) falls instantly for Kate (Jacqueline McKenzie) when he sees her at the mental health clinic. She doesn’t hang around with psychos, she tells him, but ...
Chequerboard Revisited – Episode 5: You Can’t Have A Child That’s Ugly (2000)
In 1969, the ABC documentary program Chequerboard, made a program about child performers. Thirty-one years later, two of them agreed to be filmed for Chequerboard Revisited.
Compass – Broken Open (2005)
Craig Hamilton was a very successful sports commentator who suffered a nervous breakdown at the peak of his career. He was about to take up a job at ...
Cosi (1996)
Lewis, an unemployed actor (Ben Mendelsohn) talks his way into a job at a psychiatric unit, teaching drama to the inmates. He chooses six patients, ranging from the ...
Shine (1996)
David Helfgott (played as a child by Alex Rafalowicz) is a piano prodigy, growing up in Perth in the 1950s. His father Peter (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is a loving ...
Sweetie (1989)
Kay (Karen Colston) and Sweetie (Geneviève Lemon) are sisters, although Kay wishes they weren’t. Kay is shy, superstitious and sexually repressed. Sweetie is loud, slovenly and quite possibly ...
Tom White (2004)
After a meltdown at work, architectural draughtsman Tom White (Colin Friels) walks out on his family and tries to lose himself in alcohol and anonymity. He becomes homeless ...
