Two bipolar patients meet in a psychiatric hospital and begin a romance that brings out all of the beauty and horror of their condition.Two bipolar patients meet in a psychiatric hospital and begin a romance that brings out all of the beauty and horror of their condition.Two bipolar patients meet in a psychiatric hospital and begin a romance that brings out all of the beauty and horror of their condition.
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- Bible Scholar Patient
- (as Theodore Sod)
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- TriviaThe movie is based on the life of Director/Screenwriter Paul Dalio.
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Marco: Van Gogh. Top member of the Bipolar Club. You see this?
Nurse Amy: Yes, it's beautiful!
Marco: You know why?
Nurse Amy: Why?
Marco: Because it's the painting of the sky he saw from his sanitarium window when he was manic.
Nurse Amy: Really?
Marco: Yeah. You don't believe me, go look it up.
Nurse Amy: I believe you.
Marco: Well, when you go out tonight, and you look at the sky and you see how dull it is, think about if you would've medicated Van Gogh!
- SoundtracksThe Nutcracker, Op. 71 - Act 2 - No. 14C Pas de Deux: Variation II, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performed by Valery Gergiev and Kirov Orchestra
Courtesy of Decca, Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
From the point of view of the film, manic-depressive is something certain people have that make them express emotion on a deeper level. It does not come off as dangerous at all in the film considering the film is about two poets who suffer form it
The movie is not convincing at ail that it's dangerous to be guided by your emotions, on one level it seems like that's exactly what the filmmaker wants you to take away, but certain points in the film make me uncertain.
One point that does come across really well is the idea that two people who seem so right for each other, are in fact the exact opposite.
It's a great strangely done romantic comedy about two people who are fighting the world alone, until they found each other. It was very passionate.
Katie Holmes was good in the movie too.
But it still bothers me that the movie does a lackluster job in having a firm foot on the illness these two carry. Weather positive or negative, I did not get the point.
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- Mania Days
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- Gross US & Canada
- $146,487
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $16,816
- Feb 14, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $146,487