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Desperate Remedies premiered at the Miami Film Festival to wide acclaim. It appeared at many festivals including Cannes Film Festival, Kiev International Film Festival and the Turin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. The film picked up many awards including Best Design and Best Film at Kiev and the Audience Prize in Turin.
Some critics cite "quasi-gothic" elements in Desperate Remedies.It was positively reviewed in the Athenaeum and Morning Post.However, the review in The Spectator excoriated Hardy and his work, calling the book "a desperate remedy for an emaciated purse" and that the unknown author had "prostituted his powers to the purposes of idle prying into the way of wickedness."
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by sociologist Andrew Scull is a critical history of two hundred years of treatment of mental disorders in the United States. From the "birth of the asylum" in the 1830s to the drug trials and genetic studies of the 2000s, Scull catalogues efforts by psychoanalysts ...
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Desperate Remedies: May 25, 1994: Little Buddha: distribution only July 15, 1994: Ciao, Professore! distribution only August 24, 1994: Fresh: Nominated- Grand Jury Prize Dramatic: August 24, 1994: The Advocate: October 14, 1994: Pulp Fiction: David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature Palme d'Or
[2] [3] Like Desperate Remedies, it contains melodramatic scenes that appear disconnected from the characters and plot. [ 3 ] A focus of critical interest of the novel is the scene in which Henry Knight reviews the entire history of the world as he hangs over the edge of a cliff (reputedly the origin of the term " cliffhanger "), and eventually ...
Stephen King's Desperation is a 2006 American made-for-TV horror film based on Stephen King's 1996 novel of the same name.King himself wrote the teleplay. The film was directed by frequent King collaborator Mick Garris and stars Ron Perlman, Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber and Annabeth Gish.
Extraordinary Measures is a 2010 American medical drama film starring Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, and Keri Russell.It was the first film produced by CBS Films, the film division of CBS Corporation, who released the film on January 22, 2010.