After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Sarah Michelle Gellar | ... | Veronika Deklava | |
| Jonathan Tucker | ... | Edward | |
| Erika Christensen | ... | Claire | |
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Florencia Lozano | ... | Dr. Thompson |
| Rena Owen | ... | Nurse Josephine | |
| Erica Gimpel | ... | Nurse White | |
| Victor Slezak | ... | Gabriel Durant | |
| Barbara Sukowa | ... | Mrs. Deklava | |
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Victor Steinbach | ... | Mr. Deklava |
| Melissa Leo | ... | Mari | |
| David Thewlis | ... | Dr. Blake | |
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Virl Andrick | ... | Boss |
| Jeff Applegate | ... | Anti-Pundit | |
| Lisette Bross | ... | Work Colleague #1 | |
| Matthew Cowles | ... | Old Fred | |
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The story centers on Veronika, a woman in her mid twenties who appears to have everything: good looks, good job and a great life ahead of her. Yet she decides to end her own life. She is unsuccessful and awakens in a mental hospital where she learns that she has only a short time to live. However in the hospital she meets people who are only 'insane' because they don't always follow society's rules. With little left to lose, Veronika embarks on a journey on which she frees herself to experience relationships and emotions and ultimately discovers what it means to live. Written by Anonymous
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Veronika: Well, let's see. After you decide that I'm depressed, or whatever, you'll put me on meds, right? Well I know hundreds of people on them and they're all doing just fine. Really. I'll go back to work on my new anti-depressants, have dinner with my parents and persuade them I'm back to being the normal one who never gives them any trouble. And one day some guy will ask me to marry him. He'll be nice enough. That'll make my parents very happy. The first year we'll make love all the ...
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written & performed by Edward Kessel
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Based on the novel, of the same name, by Paulo Coelho. See more »Quotes
Veronika: [first lines]Veronika: Well, let's see. After you decide that I'm depressed, or whatever, you'll put me on meds, right? Well I know hundreds of people on them and they're all doing just fine. Really. I'll go back to work on my new anti-depressants, have dinner with my parents and persuade them I'm back to being the normal one who never gives them any trouble. And one day some guy will ask me to marry him. He'll be nice enough. That'll make my parents very happy. The first year we'll make love all the ...
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Bearing some similarities with "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself" I was somewhat skeptic from the start but quickly realised this had something else to offer. Cinematography was beautiful as were the sceneries, but acting as a whole was terrible. Dr. Blake was really quite good and Edward showed glimpses of greatness but that was all. For someone sinking, Veronika showed remarkable composure throughout and the attempt to show the patients as the only truly sane went completely overboard and lost the subtlety that would have been so becoming. The underlying story is good but implementation simply didn't do it justice. And what is it with these "Victorian" asylums? Surely they *did* exist in latter days - but this weird fusion between modern day therapy and a 100 year old perception of lunacy is contrived at best.