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Writer-director Tom Y Drake’s 1976 low-budget Canadian movie The Keeper is a modestly made, comfortably familiar horror film with the admirable Christopher Lee as the sinister, crippled asylum head The Keeper and an ancient plot about […]
Roy Marsden’s portrayal of Adam Dalgliesh in Anglia Television’s P D James detective series spans 15 years from Death of an Expert Witness (1983) to A Certain Justice (1998). The series began as adaptations in […]
Director Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1978 The Shout is a thin, arty, anecdotal horror drama film from Robert Graves’s short story about a man at a mental hospital who says that the Aborigines taught him how to […]
Director Tony Bill’s 1990 comedy Crazy People stars Dudley Moore as Emory, an advertising executive who goes crazy and ends up in a mental institution where the patients are of course saner than the staff. […]
Director Howard Zieff’s 1989 comedy The Dream Team stars Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle and Stephen Furst as mental hospital patients who are separated from their doctor chaperone Dr Weitzman (Dennis Boutsikaris) on a […]
The 1957 drama film Fear Strikes Out stars young Anthony Perkins as Jimmy Piersall, a shy, fearful youth plunged into mental turmoil over his father (Karl Malden)’s overpowering need to make him a baseball player. […]
Stockport-born Claire Foy stars as Boston woman Sawyer Valentini, who has relocated 400 miles away to get away from mom (Amy Irving) and start a new job, but is apparently falling to pieces. Maybe she has […]