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Overview
Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into insanity.
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- 📖Biography🎭Drama
Release
2017-02-22
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English
Runtime
1 hour 28 minutes
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The Hollywood Reporter
Brain on Fire just sits there, inert and uninvolving.
hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/brain-fire-929809/
Common Sense Media
Several instances show heroine in the midst of violent seizures. Her illness causes volatile, out-of-control behavior: throwing things, upending furniture.
commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/brain-on-fire
Variety
This embarrassingly earnest film — produced by Charlize Theron — argues for the importance of doctors going the extra mile, when textbook diagnoses won’t do. It’s the sort of role for which the Razzies were invented, and what little audience it finds will almost certainly be heckling as they watch Moretz implode.
variety.com/2016/film/reviews/brain-on-fire-review-1201863909/
PMC - PubMed Central (General Psychiatry/SAMHC)
The movie Brain on Fire is based on the real life of the New York Post journalist, Susanna Cahalan. She is the protagonist of the movie which vividly dramatises a presentation characterised by psychotic symptoms with an underlying oft-underdiagnosed autoimmune pathology.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8291295/
The Guardian
Her brain might be on fire but her film is feeling rather damp.
theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/15/brain-on-fire-review-chloe-grace-moretz-fails-to-ignite-disease-of-the-week-drama
IMDb
"The acting was superb-- especially that of the main actress Chloe Moretz, who presented all issues from initial 'blanking' to grand-mal seizures with astonishing realism."
imdb.com/title/tt3704700/reviews/
