Manic
Manic is a 2001 American drama film directed by Jordan Melamed and written by Michael Bacall and Blayne Weaver. It was shown at several film festivals in 2001 and 2002, including the Sundance Film Festival. The region 1 DVD was released January 20, 2004. This also marks the first time actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel have worked together as each other's main love interest in a film, the second being (500) Days of Summer.
Plot
After brutally beating another teen with a baseball bat during a baseball game, Lyle Jensen, an impulsive and aggressive teen, is admitted to the juvenile psychiatric ward of a hospital along with other troubled teens: Tracy, Chad, Michael, Kenny, and Sara. Lyle is placed in a room with Kenny, a reticent 13-year-old, and form some semblance of a sibling relationship. Lyle has problems adjusting to the confinements of the institution and it is Dr. David Monroe's job to get them to talk in group therapy sessions.
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| author | Blayne Weaver Michael Bacall |
|---|---|
| director | Jordan Melamed |
| editor | Gloria Rosa Vela Madeleine Gavin |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | agoraphobia antisocial personality disorder baseball bat baseball game beat bipolar disorder bus stop bus terminal child sexual abuse group therapy meet nothing paint psychiatric ward rape read run sexually abuses sibling relationship sociopath the myth of sisyphus troubled teen trust fund van gogh wheat field wheat field with crows |
| musicBy | Thurston Moore |
| producer | Kirk Hassig Trudi Callon |
| productionCompany | Next Wave Films |
| publisher | IFC Films |
| recordedAt | California |
| theme | dance independent |