Episode 19: Manic Pixie Dream Nuts

This week, we are joined by comedian Molly Glover, of Geeks Without God and Fearless Comedy fame! Our subject du jour is one near and dear to our hearts: portrayals of mental illness in film. We go big with the dark comedy in this one!

An episode of the Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome podcast, hosted by Windy Bowlsby and Melissa Kaercher, titled "Episode 19: Manic Pixie Dream Nuts" was published on June 19, 2014 and runs 78 minutes.

June 19, 2014 ·78m · Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome

Summary

This week, we are joined by comedian Molly Glover, of Geeks Without God and Fearless Comedy fame! Our subject du jour is one near and dear to our hearts: portrayals of mental illness in film. We go big with the dark comedy in this one! Our wine pairing for this week is Barone Fini Merlot, which certainly loosened our tongues, as this episode runs a bit longer than most. I assure you, I clipped an hour out of our recording session, and still had 78 minutes remaining. We had so many stories! Show notes behind the cut! Movies mentioned: As Good as It Gets The Snake Pit Girl, Interrupted Gaslight One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Cape Fear Silver Linings Playbook Mad Love Punch Drunk Love Young Adult Sucker Punch Rain Man The Boy Who Could Fly Molly Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo A Clockwork Orange Trainspotting American Psycho The Fighter The Machinist Single White Female Gilligan’s Island (TV) The Fisher King Garden State The Bridge (TV) People mentioned: Winona Ryder Angelina Jolie Jack Nicholson Angela Bettis Brittany Murphy Whoopi Goldberg Matt Allex of Apropos of Nothing Jennifer Lawrence Bradley Cooper Drew Barrymore Charlize Theron Patton Oswalt Jason Reitman Aaron Eckhart Bret Easton Ellis H. H. Holmes Christian Bale Robin Williams Jeff Bridges Mercedes Ruehl Amanda Plummer Books mentioned: Wasted by Marya Hornbacher Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Devil in the White City by Erik Larson The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher The Secret History by Donna Tartt Melissa also mentioned an article about Angelina Jolie’s masterful control of the Hollywood spin machine. If you’d like to read it (you really should), here it is!

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