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Crazy As Hell

Screening on Film
Directed by Eriq La Salle.
With Michael Beach, Ronny Cox, John C. McGinley.
US, 2002, 35mm, color, 113 min.

Crazy As Hell is the feature directorial debut of the actor best known for his performance as Dr. Benton on television’s E.R. Director Eriq La Salle tells the story of Ty Adams, a maverick psychiatrist whose non-medicinal approach to treating patients has made him a hero in some circles, an egoist in others. At Sedah State Mental Hospital, Adams agrees to be the subject of a thirty-day documentary that examines the effects of psychiatry on mental illness and, conversely, the effects of mental illness on psychiatry. The study progresses as planned until the day a mysterious stranger admits himself to the hospital claiming to be Satan. Through their intense therapy, the stranger works his way into Adams’s world, unraveling his life and pushing him into a battle that only one of them will survive.

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