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Brain on Fire
Seeking a treatment for her annexation and hearing voices the famous journalist moves to catatonia to get diagnosed. However, getting the wrong treatment it prolongs her stay at the hospital until a doctor diagnoses her correctly giving her a chance to have the normal life that she once had.
12 October 1995, Islington, London, England, UK
2 June 1968, Iran
25 March 1982, Milton, Massachusetts, USA
14 September 1969, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
22 November 1965, Pembroke, Ontario, Canada
30 October 1970, Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
3 January 1986, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
28 March 1980, Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
10 February 1997, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
22 August 1971, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
2 April 1976, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
27 September 1991, Portland, Oregon, USA
31 May 1982, Tripoli, Lebanon
21 August 1967, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
6 March 1968, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
September 18, 2016
It's the sort of role for which the Razzies were invented, and what little audience it finds will almost certainly be heckling as they watch Moretz implode.September 19, 2016
Despite the fact that Susannah eventually manages to claw her way back from the brink of madness, this is a downbeat slog of a film which tells a not particularly involving story.September 16, 2016
Often effective, and at times positively enraging.September 19, 2016
We watch Chloe Grace Moretz's epic meltdown from a bored distance, until the drama remembers its lost calling as a disease-of-the-week movie. At that point, we receive the abrupt news of a cure with an indifferent shrug.May 03, 2017
The medical misfire Brain On Fire is based on a true story and apparently its producers thought this was sufficient reason to breathe life into the project. It is not.September 15, 2016
As the drama ramps up, we're stuck firmly in dreary TV movie territory and Moretz starts to struggle with the challenges of the role.September 19, 2016
...a fairly compelling premise that's employed to consistently underwhelming effect by writer/director Gerard Barrett...April 24, 2017
The true-life medical drama is less likely to bring awareness to a very rare autoimmune disorder than it is to be consumed as a low-rent imitator of Safe, Todd Haynes' 1995 parable.