Behind the apt, if somewhat exploitative, title is a compassionate set of interviews with women who have been institutionalized for mental illness. This is no TITICUT FOLLIES; from the comfort of their homes, with presumably the worst of their psychoses behind them, seven Bay Area women
rationally and fluently discuss brushes with madness. One of them is the director/co-producer, Allie Light. The Oscar-winning documentarian (IN THE SHADOW OF THE STARS) once checked herself into a hospital for chronic depression, and 30 years later she decided to reveal on film what had been a
shameful secret, in the company of her six subjects.
Light's (voluntary) treatment s...
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins