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29 March 2008 (Japan) morePlot:
A documentary on Henry Darger, visionary artist, janitor, and novelist. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(3 articles)
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A Different Kind of Beautiful Mind more (30 total)Cast
(Credited cast)| Larry Pine | ... | Henry Darger (voice) | |
| Dakota Fanning | ... | Narrator / Vivian Girls (voice) | |
| Frier McCollister | ... | Additional Voice (voice) | |
| Wally Wingert | ... | Additional Voice (voice) | |
| Janice Hong | ... | Additional Voice (voice) | |
| Ruby McCollister | ... | Additional Voice (voice) | |
| Paul Robert Langdon | ... | Additional Voice (voice) | |
| Mary O'Donnell | ... | Herself - Neighbor | |
| Kiyoko Lerner | ... | Herself - Landlady | |
| Mary Rooney | ... | Herself - Parish Bookkeeper | |
| David Berglund | ... | Himself - Neighbor | |
| Regina Waters | ... | Herself - Neighbor | |
| Mark Waters | ... | Himself - Neighbor | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Henry Darger | ... | Himself (photos) | |
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Chicago, Illinois, USAFun Stuff
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Title Card: After Darger's death in 1973, the Lerners decided to share their discovery of his work, preserving his room and its contents.
Title Card: Since then, Henry Darger's work has been exhibited and collected worldwide. His art has inspired the creation of paintings, poetry, music, and works in theatre, dance, and opera.
Title Card: The room was dismantled in 2000.
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I remember hearing about Henry Darger several years ago, but the article I read back then was brief and I was disturbed by images of little girls being strangled in his art. I was eager to see a documentary that would more fully explain his art. I thought the film did a very good job of providing insight to his work - how his traumatic early life led to the themes of his obsessive artwork, how the torture of the little girls probably references his own feelings of feeling tortured in his own life, clues to why he drew penises on all his little blonde girls --"the Vivians," his basic sense of himself as an "innocent," his attempt to adopt children, how he created a secret world for himself, complete with talking to himself in different voices, etc. A much more interesting look into mental illness in some ways than the movie A Beautiful Mind.