Andrea “Andy” Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is an aspiring journalist fresh out of Northwestern University. Despite ridiculing the shallowness of the fashion industry, she lands the job a million girls would kill for: junior personal assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the icy editor-in-chief of Runway fashion magazine. Andy puts up with Miranda’s bizarre and humiliating […]
Rain Man
Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), Los Angeles car dealer in his mid-twenties, is in the middle of importing four grey market Lamborghinis. The deal is being threatened by the EPA, and if Charlie cannot meet its requirements he will lose a significant amount of money. After some quick subterfuge with an employee, Charlie leaves for a […]
Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Cinema Therapy
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
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 […]