WARNING: SOME SPOILERS INCLUDED!!! Not a lot, but a few here and there, so beware!!!
Okay, first off, the music is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cheesy. Every time Nancy McKeon begins to hear voices/go crazy, the background music starts in and it's worse than porn music. The acting isn't particularly bad, it's just overly dramatic. Obviously, no one on the cast is actually schizophrenic because I don't believe the scenes that are in Nancy McKeon's point of view are an accurate representation of schizophrenia. Not that I would know from personal experience, as I don't have schizophrenia myself. However, I do know that cheesy music does not start playing every time someone starts hearing voices or perceiving the world as being "against them in one giant conspiracy". I know that the movie was made in 1987, but I didn't think 1987 was the middle ages of psychiatry but I guess it was. This was, after all, before Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, and Zyprexa. The medications available had such many awful side effects, much more severe than the drugs we have available now. Perhaps that is why she throws her medication away and doesn't want to take it. I guess I should just cut the movie some slack because it was 1987 after all and what the heck did they know then anyway? But even if this movie was made today, the silly dialogue, the overacting, and the awful music are enough to make this the "Showgirls" of schizophrenic movies. But I had to watch the whole thing anyway. Just like eating a whole bag of Doritos, I was left feeling bloated, icky, and had a sticky orange coating on my fingers. Well, okay, there was no sticky orange coating on my fingers, but you get the picture, right? :)
Okay, first off, the music is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cheesy. Every time Nancy McKeon begins to hear voices/go crazy, the background music starts in and it's worse than porn music. The acting isn't particularly bad, it's just overly dramatic. Obviously, no one on the cast is actually schizophrenic because I don't believe the scenes that are in Nancy McKeon's point of view are an accurate representation of schizophrenia. Not that I would know from personal experience, as I don't have schizophrenia myself. However, I do know that cheesy music does not start playing every time someone starts hearing voices or perceiving the world as being "against them in one giant conspiracy". I know that the movie was made in 1987, but I didn't think 1987 was the middle ages of psychiatry but I guess it was. This was, after all, before Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, and Zyprexa. The medications available had such many awful side effects, much more severe than the drugs we have available now. Perhaps that is why she throws her medication away and doesn't want to take it. I guess I should just cut the movie some slack because it was 1987 after all and what the heck did they know then anyway? But even if this movie was made today, the silly dialogue, the overacting, and the awful music are enough to make this the "Showgirls" of schizophrenic movies. But I had to watch the whole thing anyway. Just like eating a whole bag of Doritos, I was left feeling bloated, icky, and had a sticky orange coating on my fingers. Well, okay, there was no sticky orange coating on my fingers, but you get the picture, right? :)