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Samantha Mathis, while attempting to be the leading action lady in a few parts, suffers from a nervous breakdown.
Bryan Cranston plays the long lost cousin of Judge Reinhold for which he is a putz on the nervous breakdown and wants a real relationship with his family.
While there he finds the professor has had a nervous breakdown & says strange things.
Moore play an advertising executive who experiences a minor nervous breakdown.
Weiss plays the husband of a visibly older woman who is a writer that just had a nervous breakdown.
because of that Adrian Monk suffered a complete breakdown.
She does admittedly suffer one major breakdown, but then recovers with remarkable celerity.
However, 'The Aristo-Cat' pays less attention to the normal conventions of plot and instead throws the spotlight on the tremendous nervous breakdown of Pussy the cat.
The grieving Sara has a nervous breakdown and is interned in the Headway Nursing Home for treatment.
It's a sanitarium she was put in after a breakdown she was told happened to her but she can't remember.
I look over and the man was tearing up and I though he was nearly about to breakdown in full tears.
Yes, the two leads are rather dull and the complete breakdown of society in about 48 hours, while explained by a few throwaway lines of dialog is a little hard to swallow.
Her first breakdown (at Massey's waterfront mansion) with Heflin might be considered over-the-top 40s style acting (pre-Method), but she delivers it beautifully, her face and expressions a towering display of emotion and angst.
She basically rips herself off (yes, its true) as a manic schizophrenic channeling all the better breakdown scenes from Lady.
Much of the inner drama of Joe and Claire's relationship breakdown is similarly lost in translation.
Danika is disturbed and near a breakdown, having dark and terrifying nightmares and daydreams; distracted in her work and consequently committing mistakes; and under psychiatric treatment with Dr. Evelyn (Regina Hall).
A pretty normal guy however, in this movie we get to enjoy the breakdown of his being while he has to come to terms with the forces of nature (or the Super Natural or Xeno Nature).
One just left his wife, another was a top lawyer but had a nervous breakdown.
Her mother Suzan 'Sue' Berlin (Barbara Barrie) is a bitter school teacher that likes to flirt with the principal Arthur Gold (Bob Dishy), who is married with the housewife Alice Gold (Madeline Kahn) that is close to a breakdown.
The cast were all excellent, Lars Hanson was superb as the tormented title character Anson Campbell, he has been accused of over acting, but, Anson Campbell is a man who is losing his faith and heading for a mental breakdown to boot and Hanson portrays that with chilling clarity at times, though admittedly he was a little over wrought in some later sequences.
The plot is thin; a beautiful pianist (Carla Borelli) suffers a minor breakdown and ends up at an old, scary-looking asylum in the country, where she hears sinister chanting and has a number of extremely vivid nightmares.
She plays a singer who seems larger than life when she's on stage, but once she steps off it, we see a troubled and lonely woman on the brink of a complete breakdown.
When his next cubicle colleague has a breakdown and shoots his colleagues, Bob kills him with five shots and becomes a popular local hero.
Winkler plays Chuck Lumley, a securities broker who may have had a nervous breakdown - anyway, he has taken a job at the morgue so he can be in a quiet place.
Risks of breakdown are increased because our theoretical understanding of how financial markets operate is fundamentally flawed.
This could lead to a breakdown as in the 1930's.
But breakdown can be avoided if we recognize the flaws in time.
They are also vulnerable to death and injury from natural disasters and traffic accidents – and to the health consequences of social disorder and breakdown.
A breakdown in these arrangements would cause a major crisis for the EU, which is already divided between north and south by the chronic euro crisis.
Of course, a breakdown in political civility would hardly make the US unique; all too many countries suffer some degree of political dysfunction.
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