THIS IS NOT A BIOGRAPHY OF A SCHIZOPHRENIC

Rating: 3/10 (26 January 2003)

It is a fantasy someone made up. Educate yourself about the real life of John Forbes before you decide how you feel about this movie or at least before you vote and comment on it here. Or maybe state your disinterest in knowing the real life a schizophrenic lives and your preference to embrace a Hollywood warm and fuzzy notion instead. John Forbes' true story could've been told with just as much craft and made a real step toward understanding a schizophrenic's struggle but instead we were dealt a manipulated schmalsification of a real life lived in the grip of an overpowering disease. I have had schizophrenia in my family and I have watched their realities unfold out there for the rest of us to gaze upon with twisted Malcolm in the Middle faces...it is achingly painful and takes a terrible toll on all those who love them. His life with a few small twists? Get outta town! This could've been a great movie - Russell Crowe delivered a flawless performance and the presentation of the actual schizophrenic events was excellent, but there it stops. Want to know what schizophrenia really does to a life? - read the true story and don't be sucked in by this Hollywood fuzzy camera lens smoothing out all the trauma and scars.