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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.
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]
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.
Aftersun (2022) Perhaps the best depiction of living through manic depression in recent years is Aftersun, the debut film from director Charlotte Wells.Following a young father (Paul Mescal) and ...
The King of Staten Island (2020) The newest movie on this list, The King of Staten Island follows a recent pattern of movies directed by Judd Apatow, in which he allows his lead actor to co-write ...
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.
Jamie Foxx suffered a stroke in April 2023 while in production on his Netflix movie "Back in Action." Director Seth Gordon recounts how he continued making the movie while Foxx recovered.
Amen is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. [1] [49] He has also been an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine. [18] Amen is the author of more than 30 books, with combined sales of about one million copies.