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elcanche
IMDb member since November 2005
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Stateside (2004)
good depiction of schizophrenia
6 November 2005 - 12 out of 14 users found this review helpful.
Interesting movie. Has some real thought provoking parts. The main female lead (Cook) is shown as having schizophrenia. Usually, movies show such people as evil and people to be feared, which is not accurate and only worsens the negative stigma of mental illness - but makes for money making movies.
Knowing a lot of the mental illness of schizophrenia, I can state that the producers of this movie have done a very good job of showing a real person with schizophrenia. Cook does a great job of showing that person.
Yes, movie is somewhat disjointed and the ending somewhat abrupt. But it's still a meaningful movie.
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