A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Bruce Greenwood | ... | Dr. Toby Greene | |
| Xavier Dolan | ... | Michael Aleen | |
| Carrie-Anne Moss | ... | Olivia | |
| Guy Nadon | ... | Dr. Craig Jones | |
| Colm Feore | ... | Dr. James Lawrence | |
| Catherine Keener | ... | Nurse Susan Peterson | |
| Gianna Corbisiero | ... | Florence Da Costa | |
| Cindy Sampson | ... | Christelle | |
| Larry Day | ... | Sergeant Taylor | |
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Melody Godin-Cormier | ... | Amy Greene |
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Mark Donker | ... | Jakobus Aleen (as Marc Donker) |
| Matt Holland | ... | Bruce | |
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Enrique Pérez-Mesa | ... | Marcus |
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Ethan Bolduc | ... | Michael, 5 Years Old |
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Germano Santana | ... | Michael, 7 Years Old |
It's January, 1966 at St. Christina's Psychiatric Hospital in Northwestern Ontario. Dr. Toby Greene and Nurse Susan Peterson are individually being interviewed by Dr. Craig Jones, one of the hospital's administrators, about the incident that occurred just before Christmas, the day that their colleague, Dr. James Lawrence, inexplicably did not show up for work. As Dr. Lawrence disappeared the day before during a session with one of his regular patients, a young man named Michael Aleen, the belief among some is that Michael may have had something to do with Dr. Lawrence's disappearance. That day, Dr. Greene took over Dr. Lawrence's patient-load, which included a session with Michael to try and discover if he indeed had some nefarious role in Dr. Lawrence's disappearance. Dr. Greene did not know Michael at all, and was unable to read his case file before meeting with Michael. Regardless, Dr. Greene believed he could read Michael and glean as much from his lies as from his truths. ... Written by Huggo
The story is set in 1966, but you would never know it. A psychiatric hospital has a missing staff member , and a shrink is interviewing a patient who may have had something to do with it. The young patient is about as disrespectful as someone can be, and he provokes the physician into slapping him. The doctor promptly puts his tail between his legs and begs forgiveness . This patient is so sarcastic and condesending that the interview is worthless anyway , other than to see him torment the doc in a meaningless way. SURE ! In the 60s a doctor never would have gotten to that point, He would have shut the patient up long before he talked to him like he was dirt. But if he had slapped him he certainly wouldn't have apologized, in a time when corporal punishment was routine, and if it wasnt they didn't believe kids anyway .
They should have done it more MAD MAN style, where they portrayed people acting the way they did, before lawsuits, tabloids social media had adults pushed around by children and the lunatics running the nut house, literally. I couldn't take the snottiness of the patient any longer and the staff cow towing to him, so couldn't finish it. It's a sad state of movie making where they show the professionals afraid of the underaged , crazy patients, but it is the state of the world today, not 1966.