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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) strike up a relationship on a Long Island Rail Road train from Montauk, New York. They are drawn to each other on account of their radically different personalities; he is withdrawn and she is outgoing. Much of the film takes place in Joel’s mind. As his […]

Hill Street Blues: The Series

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Created by Steven Bochco and one of television’s most influential series, Hill Street Blues was not your father’s cop show. The Emmy-winning pilot episode, “Hill Street Station,” immediately established the series as less a police procedural than an up-close and personal interface with the police experience. To establish gritty, documentary-like realism, the show featured sequences, […]

Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Cinema Therapy

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Narcissistic personality disorder is a condition in which people have an excessive sense of self-importance, an extreme preoccupation with themselves, and lack of empathy for others. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is characterized by a long-standing pattern of grandiosity (either in fantasy or actual behavior), an overwhelming need for admiration, and a lack of empathy toward others. People with […]

The Aviator

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By the time Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) was 22 in 1927, he had inherited his family’s fortune and was living in California. He hired Noah Dietrich (John C. Reilly) to run the Hughes Tool Company and began pursuing his interests in film and aviation. Hughes started by directing the silent film, Hell’s Angels. Despite skepticism among […]