When she tried to kill herself, it was just the beginning.
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Oct 20257/10
Kathleen Quinlan delivers powerfully here as the disturbed “Deborah” who has been institutionalised by her therapist “Dr. Fried” (Bibi Andersson). She’s delusional and walks a fairly fine line between a reality in which she doesn’t feel pain and a fantasy land with it’s own language that she must, at all costs, keep secret. Once ensconced, she finds herself staring at a stark world where her humanity is very much subsumed into a violent, noisy and drug-induced environment run by an eclectic combination of mostly men, who have varying degrees of sympathy for their patients/inmates. Fortunately for “Deborah”, her psychiatrist is genuinely interested in trying to help her recover, and against a backdrop that is hardly conducive, there might be hope that she can possibly emerge from the toxic alternative world that she has become dependent upon. It’s the noise that got me most here. The reverberations of the shouting and the screaming around rudimentary accommodation that has more in common with a prison than an hospital all adds to the general sense of craziness. There are a few potent efforts from the supporting cast, like Norman Alden’s “McPherson” whose more measured and considerat
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Cast
- Kathleen QuinlanDeborah Blake
- Bibi AnderssonDr. Fried
- Ben PiazzaJay Blake
- Lorraine GaryEster Blake
- Martine BartlettSecret Wife
- Margo Ann BerdeshevskyDrawing Patient
- Darlene CraviottoCarla
- Reni SantoniHobbs
- Susan TyrrellLee
- Signe HassoHelene
Crew
- Anthony PageDirector
- Gavin LambertScreenplay
- Lewis John CarlinoScreenplay
- Joanne GreenbergNovel
- Bruce LoganDirector of Photography
- Paul ChiharaOriginal Music Composer
- Garth CravenEditor
- Terence F. DeaneProducer
- Michael HausmanProducer
- Edgar J. ScherickProducer
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