Manic 2001

other movies like this one????

life sucks

I spent majority of my adolescence in group homes and psych wards just like this. Today I’m 30 years old and I saw Manic for the first time when I was 15(?). There’s not a week/month that goes by that I don’t think about this film.
It is so accurate are so raw and so real. I have yet to come across a film that depicts mental illness and trauma among adolescents in a way that is so relentlessly accurate.

💯👍

Love this film !

I watched this movie abt 12 years ago. It changed my life lol

Hi! I’m the art director on this. I pranked the hell out of Joe during this shoot. The sketches of the Van Gogh are mine. This was shot at what now is part of Cal State, an old mental hospital. The same hospital Charlie Manson was in for his evaluation prior to his trial. Manson was in the 1920’s buildings, we shot most of Manic in the newer children’s separate parts. The cast was the best. Everyone of them excellent to work with.

Saw this movie for the first time when I was like 11-12. Now I’m 30 and rediscovering it has been such a cathartic experience for me. Some scenes are painful to watch...kinda like scratching old wounds that I haven’t thought about in years. But there’s also a bittersweet nostalgia to this film. It got me through a lot of shit when I was a kid. Makes the 2000’s feel like they were just yesterday.

I remember watching this when it came out and it had a huge impact on me. It’s a fucking great movie

Why does Mike think he's black? I think he's a dope

Brilliant assessment

“Do you like the undertaker?”💀

This movie has always been a fav

i know this is an old video/movie but coming from someone who’s tried to take their life multiple times and being in a psych ward this movie holds up really well and portrayed everything almost perfectly,great movie

IFC used to churn out some straight BANGERS.

This movie broke me.

"Lyle, wherever you're going, you're still gonna be there."

Dr. Monroe is one of my favorite characters, man. His attitude has genuinely helped me in troubled times.

this movie is something man

Nice

Did Kenny so wrong

What was chad’s story

So excellent. Been years since I watched this.

Thank you 🙌🌠

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God bless anyone battling any mental illnesses.

feels like the person that don cheadle is acting as is talking to me sometimes

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I saw this film at a film festival in late 2000 and it was such a hard hitting film for me. I was in high school and knew kids like Lyle and the documentary style filmmaking utilized in this film made it feel all the more real. Great film that deserves more recognition.

What a fkin movie 😮Don Cheadle just got me in tears...😓🔥

This movie made me realize I'm bipolar I was still in denial after my old friend, who also is, told me all about it and agreed I was most likely was.

What a amazing movie

real real

Why isn't the sound working

i love this film

someone in the comments mentioned this movie makes me not feel so alone, I couldn't agree more with that. I kinda feel like I'm there when the scenes happen especially when it's with the whole group

this movie it's fucking moronic less than 10 minutes.

You can't control your flight or fight reponse.

They're so good they don't seem like they're acting.

Not an easy film to watch

Never noticed that Chad is reading the myth of sisyphus :)

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Woah

I love this movie no one knows how much it means to me

yeah

I like how JGL and Zooey are both in another movie years later