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A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.
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- 3 wins & 12 nominations
Mark Donker
- Jakobus Aleen
- (as Marc Donker)
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- TriviaXavier Dolan himself dubbed in the French language version, as well as Guy Nadon.
- GoofsAll entries contain spoilers
- Quotes
Michael Aleen: [to Dr. Greene] I'm the patient, you're the impatient.
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Snotty patient harasses hospital staff with 2020 sensitbilites in a 1966 story
The story is set in 1966, but you would never know it. A psychiatric hospital has a missing staff member , and a shrink is interviewing a patient who may have had something to do with it. The young patient is about as disrespectful as someone can be, and he provokes the physician into slapping him. The doctor promptly puts his tail between his legs and begs forgiveness . This patient is so sarcastic and condesending that the interview is worthless anyway , other than to see him torment the doc in a meaningless way. SURE ! In the 60s a doctor never would have gotten to that point, He would have shut the patient up long before he talked to him like he was dirt. But if he had slapped him he certainly wouldn't have apologized, in a time when corporal punishment was routine, and if it wasnt they didn't believe kids anyway .
They should have done it more MAD MAN style, where they portrayed people acting the way they did, before lawsuits, tabloids social media had adults pushed around by children and the lunatics running the nut house, literally. I couldn't take the snottiness of the patient any longer and the staff cow towing to him, so couldn't finish it. It's a sad state of movie making where they show the professionals afraid of the underaged , crazy patients, but it is the state of the world today, not 1966.
They should have done it more MAD MAN style, where they portrayed people acting the way they did, before lawsuits, tabloids social media had adults pushed around by children and the lunatics running the nut house, literally. I couldn't take the snottiness of the patient any longer and the staff cow towing to him, so couldn't finish it. It's a sad state of movie making where they show the professionals afraid of the underaged , crazy patients, but it is the state of the world today, not 1966.
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- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $171,505
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