"True love can't be broken by anything, including mental illness."
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, is coping with ongoing episodes of schizophrenia.
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Elizabeth
Grant
Dr. Bowman
Carol
Tim
Head Nurse Regina
Jane
Mary
Receptionist
Hospital Patient
Little Boy
Shopper
Little Girl
Nurse Mary Lou
Christmas tree salesman
Janitor
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An exploration of the impact of schizophrenia on a young woman and her family in today's Calcutta.
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When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.
Dr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are Jesus Christ.
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