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Lost Transmissions (2019)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When an acclaimed music producer goes off his medication for schizophrenia, his friends chase him though the LA music scene to help commit him to a psychiatric hospital, revealing the troubling inadequacies of the mental health care system.
Style:
suspense, realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, sincere, enigmatic, depressing ...
Plot:
songwriter, schizophrenia, record producer, medication, mental disorder, music industry, mental illness, friendship, help, music, schizophrenic, mental patient, treatment, musician's life, social realism, friends, illness, mental institution, psychiatrist, illusion, club, nightclub, fighting illness, escaped mental patient, mentally unstable ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
los angeles, usa
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