During a difficult visit to her single immigrant mother, Athena discovers that what she thought was age-related mental decline is in fact an inherited magical gift.
A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.
When his father dies, an awkward young man is shocked by the attention of his friends. When the warmth is gone and things return to their usual coldness, he begins to wonder: “Who else must die?”
A comedy about depression, alcoholism, suicide and the other funniest parts of life. Gethard holds nothing back as he dives into his experiences with mental illness and psychiatry, finding hope in the strangest places. An adaption of his one-man off-Broadway show of the same name.
Fresh out of college and stuck at his New Jersey home without a clear path forward, 22-year-old Andrew begins working as a party starter for bar/bat mitzvahs—where he strikes up a unique friendship with a young mom and her teenage daughter.
A hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - falls for a suicidal mental patient.
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
When an evil genius steals the Magical Beacon Stone and forces the children of Inverclyde to toil in his factories, Bella and Jenny only have five days to find the Stone stop his schemes and save Christmas.
A filmmaker struggling with her mental health reaches a breaking point and kidnaps a famous social media influencer in an attempt to coerce them into playing the lead in her latest project.
The Drummer and the Keeper tells the story of the unlikely friendship formed between two young men: Gabriel, a reckless young drummer who revels in rejecting society’s rules and Christopher, a 17-year-old with Asperger’s Syndrome, who yearns to fit in. This heartwarming story shows the strength of the human bond in the face of adversity.
At a downtown Madrid building, an ordinary meeting of neighbors commune to vote on a change of elevator. However, the event escalates into a full-blown conflict after the unexpected announcement that a new, mentally ill tenant will rent an apartment.
In a 1-hour long stand-up special, Cameron Esposito guides the audience through the ups and downs of her bipolar disorder diagnosis, with detours to talk about her extremely unlucky dog, a near-deadly bacterial infection, and the things she learned during a stint in (virtual) divinity school.
A crossing guard has known too many misfortunes in his life to believe he is facing the on-the-run President of the Republic.
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
A violent stop motion cabaret for the cynical and depraved. Guilt, alcoholic apathy and the inevitable, looming apocalypse threaten to push a young man to the brink.
A teenage boy with autism trains for a marathon under a reluctant coach, leading to a mix of heartfelt and humorous moments as they challenge each other and grow along the way.
John, a twenty-something with Asperger's Syndrome, will do anything it takes to be a voice actor. When the biggest opportunity of his life falls in his lap, a series of mishaps may ruin his shot, but they won't crush his spirit.
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.