Academy Awards, USA 1978
| Nominated Oscar | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Gavin Lambert Lewis John Carlino |
New World Pictures
Directed by Anthony Page
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
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Suicidal teen Kathleen Quinlan is committed by her parents to an institution. She has hallucinations about a tribe of Indians (played by "Dan Elfman" and The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo!) who threaten to take her out of this world and into theirs. Bibi Andersson is her compassionate doctor and only chance for sanity. Her fellow patients harass and threaten her, many in much worse shape than herself. A little too similar to the previous year's very successful One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, only with the genders reversed (all female patients), but still harrowing. Quinlan is quite good in a difficult role.
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