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Lopez's subsequent book, The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music, was based on his relationship with Ayers. The book has been adapted into a film and a play titled The Soloist, released April 24, 2009, with Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. in the lead roles.
The Soloist is a 2009 drama film directed by Joe Wright, and starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. The plot is based on the true story of Nathaniel Ayers , a musician who developed schizophrenia and became homeless.
Movies and Mental Illness – Hogrefe Publishing; David J. Robinson, Reel Psychiatry: Movie Portrayals of Psychiatric Conditions, Rapid Psychler Press, 2003, ISBN 1-894328-07-8. Glen O. Gabbard and Krin Gabbard, Psychiatry and the Cinema, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2nd ed., 1999, ISBN 0-88048-964-2.
Little Miss Sunshine doesn't entirely revolve around mental health or mental illness, but it plays a huge role in the movie. The inciting incident of the film is a family road trip in a yellow VW ...
LAMP Community (originally the Los Angeles Men's Place) is a Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization located in Skid Row that seeks to permanently end homelessness, improve health, and build self-sufficiency among men and women living with severe mental illness. [1] [2] Lamp Community also played a prominent role in the movie The Soloist. [3]
Trainspotting (1996) Addiction is without question a mental illness, and no movie shows it for the high highs and low lows better than director Danny Boyle's stylish breakout hit Trainspotting.The ...
A study examined the portrayal of mental illness in Disney films and found that 85% of these films made reference to mental illness, and 21% of the characters were referred to as mentally ill. On average, 4.6 references to mental illness were made across these films, with the most commonly used terms being "mad," "crazy," or "nutty."
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1962 novel by Ken Kesey about the treatment of mental illness. [8] Nilo, mi hijo, a 1963 play by Antonio González Caballero. [9] The Bell Jar, 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath, a fictionalised account of Plath's own struggles with depression. [10] Wide Sargasso Sea, a 1966 retelling of Jane Eyre by Jean Rhys.