

Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...
Acting
McKenzie and Lynch walk the sanity tightrope terrifyingly well.
Direction
Rymer keeps you uncertain what's real and what's episode.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds like actual unwell people, not movie crazy.

Director
Michael Rymer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jacqueline McKenzie won AFI Best Actress; this was her breakout before Deep Blue Sea.
Rare 90s portrayal of schizophrenia as love story, not horror villain origin—predates A Beautiful Mind by six years.
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I cried 😭 like a baby when I saw this in a theater when it came out. Such a beautiful film.
@healngwithhopeandempathy 15
Fantastic movie. The lengths he goes to to to keep his lover safe and smiling.
@tonysoprano3671 11
Beautiful movie! I will never forget it! ❤
@jennyjohnson9579 6
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