Movies in the Classroom is a recurring column in The CPNP Perspective to provide an insight into pop culture perspectives on psychiatric disorders and pharmacotherapy. Browse or search the movies below to find something interesting to watch.
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 | American Sniper
American Sniper
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B00RGZ94SG
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DVD
U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq with only one mission to protect his brothers-in-arms. His pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on ... | 06/2015 |
 | Awakenings
Awakenings
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B0043X1FL8
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DVD
By opening one man's eyes to the world... he opened his own. Robert De Niro (in an Oscar-nominated performance) and Robin Williams star in this ... | 10/2013 |
 | Basketball Diaries, The
The Basketball Diaries
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B00049QQHI
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DVD
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. ... | 05/2015 |
 | Beautiful Mind, A
A Beautiful Mind
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B000FVQLQQ
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DVD
Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind is directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard and produced by long-time ... | 02/2013 |
 | Benny and Joon
Benny and Joon
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B000053VAZ
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DVD
Johnny Depp (Sleepy Hollow), Mary Stuart Masterson (Bed of Roses) and Aidan Quinn (Practical Magic) star in this wonderfully unique and ... | 07/2015 |
 | Black Swan
Black Swan
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B0041KKYEM
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DVD
“You can’t tear your eyes away” (Entertainment Weekly) from this “wicked, psychosexual thriller” (Daily Variety) ... | 07/2016 |
 | Boy Interrupted
Boy Interrupted
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B002FU6F16
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DVD
On the night of Oct. 2, 2005, Hart and Dana Perry's 15-year-old son Evan jumped to his death from his New York City bedroom window. This ... | 10/2012 |
 | Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B00ILTS626
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DVD
Like its first breast cancer-themed installment, Call Me Crazy aka Five 2/Five More will feature five short films featuring A-list ... | 09/2017 |
 | Caveman’s Valentine, The
The Caveman’s Valentine
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B00005JCA8
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DVD
In this spine-tingling and visually stunning thriller, Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Unbreakable, Shaft, Pulp Fiction) ... | 12/2015 |
 | Drugstore Cowboy
Drugstore Cowboy
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
6305594333
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DVD
Drugstore Cowboy takes place in the early 1970's, in the wake of the cultural revolution when recreational drug use was more widely ... | 12/2013 |
 | Flight
Flight
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B00AFEXRME
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DVD
Academy Award® winner Denzel Washington stars in this “riveting and powerful nail-biting thriller1” from Robert Zemeckis, the Academy ... | 04/2014 |
 | Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Two time Oscar(r)-nominee Winona Ryder stars in the fascinating true story of a young woman's life-altering stay at a famous psychiatric hospital in the turbulent late 1960's. Questionably diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, Susanna (Winona Ryder) rebels against the head nurse (Whoopi ... | 03/2012 |
 | Life As A House
Life As A House
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B00005YUPC
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DVD
Life As A House is a 2001 film, directed by Irwin Winkler, that follows the dysfunctional life of a broken family.
This was ... | 01/2014 |
 | Love and Other Drugs
Love and Other Drugs
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B004L3AR0K
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DVD
Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway co-star in “the smartest, sexiest and downright best screen-melting romance of the year” ... | 05/2014 |
 | Machinist (2011), The
The Machinist (2011)
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B0007Y08QA
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DVD
THE MACHINIST is the story of Trevor Reznik, a machinist who hasn’t slept in over a year. Working in a machine shop, Trevor faces the ... | 04/2012 |
 | Matchstick Men
Matchstick Men
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B00012QLB4
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DVD
Nicolas Cage stars as a con man with an obsessive-compulsive disorder whose orderly life and latest scam are threatened by the reappearance of a ... | 02/2015 |
 | Melancholia
Melancholia
Kirsten Dunst plays a bride whose lavish wedding descends into chaos as a new planet called Melancholia is getting dangerously close to Earth. Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgard and John Hurt also star.
This movie was reviewed in the Mental Health Clinician.
| 12/2011 |
 | Movie: Still Alice
Movie: Still Alice
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B00STSO6KU
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DVD
Alice Howland, a linguistics professor, receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s disease and finds her family bonds wholly ... | 03/2017 |
 | My Left Foot
My Left Foot
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B00008L3RY
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DVD
This cinematic masterpiece is the brilliant portrayal of legendary Irishman Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis) who, despite crippling cerebral palsy, ... | 05/2013 |
 | Nerve
Nerve
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B008GZ671W
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DVD
In this indie favorite, a young man battles his social anxiety disorder with the help of a pretty psychology student. Little does he know, it'll be ... | 06/2013 |
 | Notebook, The
The Notebook
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B000683VI4
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DVD
Behind every great love is a great story. Two teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love during one summer together, but are ... | 02/2014 |
 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
0790732181
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DVD
One of the key movies of the 1970s, when exciting, groundbreaking, personal films were still being made in Hollywood, Milos ... | 11/2011 |
 | Perks of Being a Wallflower
Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B00AFEY354
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DVD
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is based on the wildly popular novel by Stephen Chbosky about a freshman named Charlie (Logan ... | 03/2014 |
 | Requiem
Requiem
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B000LXHFMM
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DVD
Based on a true story that inspired the horror film The Exorcism of Emily Rose. An epileptic girl suffers a breakdown during her first year at ... | 11/2013 |
 | Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B00005Q4CS
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DVD
On the rusted mean streets of Coney Island in Brooklyn, four people pursue a better life - a Mother, her son, her son's girl friend and ... | 11/2017 |
 | Shutter Island
Shutter Island
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B001GCUO5M
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DVD
Martin Scorsese puts Leonardo DiCaprio through the wringer again in Shutter Island, a gothic adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel. Leo's ... | 11/2011 |
 | Silver Lining Playbook
Silver Lining Playbook
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B00A81MV3U
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DVD
Life doesn't always go according to plan. Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything -- his house, his job, and his wife. He ... | 04/2013 |
 | Soloist, The
The Soloist
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B002JQIRTO
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DVD
Academy Award nominee Robert Downey Jr. and Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx star in an extraordinary and inspiring true story of how a chance ... | 08/2013 |
 | Speak
Speak
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B000A7Q2I2
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DVD
Based on the novel by Laurie Halse Anderson, this follows a high school freshman who expresses herself in art to go beyond the date rape and the silence ... | 07/2017 |
 | Spun
Spun
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B00005JM23
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DVD
Three days of epic drug binging become a meth-induced odyssey for college dropout Ross when he becomes the local crystal meth cook's personal driver in ... | 01/2017 |
 | Take Shelter
Take Shelter
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B006HGXGWU
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DVD
Following his acclaimed debut, Shotgun Stories, writer/director Jeff Nichols reteams with actor Michael Shannon to create a haunting tale that will ... | 05/2012 |
 | What About Bob
What About Bob
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B00004RJ73
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DVD
Comic wizard Bill Murray (CRADLE WILL ROCK, RUSHMORE) teams up with Academy Award(R)-winner Richard Dreyfuss teams up with (Best Actor, 1978, THE ... | 09/2014 |
 | Wolf of Wall Street, The
The Wolf of Wall Street
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Amazon ASIN (or ISBN):
B00H9KKKAY
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DVD
Sex. Money. Power. Drugs. Brace yourself for an outrageous true story from legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Leonardo DiCaprio stars ... | 09/2015 |