A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls whose mother has cracked from her husband's political ambitions and his infidelity.
The Moochmore girls are certain they all suffer from some kind of undiagnosed mental illness - because if they're not crazy then they're just unpopular. Their mother Shirley - unable to cope with her demanding daughters and unsupported by her philandering politician husband, Barry - suffers a nervous breakdown. After Barry commits his wife to a mental hospital (telling his constituents that "she's on holiday") he finds himself alone with 5 teenage girls he barely knows. Desperate, he impulsively picks up a hitchhiker named Shaz and installs her in his home as nanny to his daughters.Written by
Caitlin Rose
In an interview on Australian television, P.J. Hogan said that Mental is autobiographical, that his own father had his wife committed, hired a hitchhiker to babysit his children - he trusted her because she had a dog - and later found out that she was an escapee. See more »
Goofs
When Mr. Moochmore sits down to the dinner the girls made, the first item from the food dishes he is offered is a piece of bread, which he places on his plate. He then starts to reach for the spoon in the bowl of peas. In the next shot, the bread is gone from his plate, and in its place is a half a cob of corn. He is shown again reaching for the spoon in the peas, yet there is already a small pile of peas on his plate, and the bread is being held out to be offered once more. See more »
Quotes
Shaz:
America, Europe, Asia, and all the way down here is Australia. Alone. Isolated. Ever wonder why? Why we're down here?
Jane Moochmore:
Well, we were a penal colony.
Shaz:
That's the cover story, yeah, but historically where have they always sent the loonies? As far away as possible. You can't get any further away than Australia. We weren't a penal colony, we was a lunatic asylum. Our ancestors were loonies and this is the result. Have a look around. There's no such thing as normal, there's just different shades of ...
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You shouldn't read this you should just watch it! Sometimes you stumble over a fresh movie thats pure genius this is one of them.
The movie centers about a suburban broken home and it starts out a bit kinda meh but keep accelerating from there on to pure mental enjoyment.
It take lemons and makes lemonade mace you can spray in the face of your everyday depression.
It reminds me somehow of Hedwig and the angry inch in stylistic way of touching the mundane boring bizarre dark parts of life in a way that jolts you in a good way.
It probably has the best ending of a movie I've seen since the text scrolling dialog in a knights tale.
The story is not the important part hence i don't focus on it,its the ride itself with the characters.
I rarely get to write positive review on IMDb so I'm glad i watched this movie and you should to :)
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You shouldn't read this you should just watch it! Sometimes you stumble over a fresh movie thats pure genius this is one of them.
The movie centers about a suburban broken home and it starts out a bit kinda meh but keep accelerating from there on to pure mental enjoyment.
It take lemons and makes lemonade mace you can spray in the face of your everyday depression.
It reminds me somehow of Hedwig and the angry inch in stylistic way of touching the mundane boring bizarre dark parts of life in a way that jolts you in a good way.
It probably has the best ending of a movie I've seen since the text scrolling dialog in a knights tale.
The story is not the important part hence i don't focus on it,its the ride itself with the characters.
I rarely get to write positive review on IMDb so I'm glad i watched this movie and you should to :)