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#21

All great actors in some great movies! Fisher King is one of my all time favorites. I wonder if an actor who has struggled themselves makes a more compassionate and realistic characterization?
Kevin Spacey in KPax wins overall for me from this list, but all just great.

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#22

Leonardo diCaprio in Whatā€™s Eating Gilbert Grape. He was definitely mentally disordered.

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#23

I know itā€™s not really ā€œfunnyā€ beyond a warped sense of humor, but I do have a warped sense of humor and back when my diagnosis was Bipolar 1 w/ psychotic features, I did appreciate Charlie Sheen giving us our own theme song.

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#24

Both brilliant movies!

#25

I really like Michael Shannon, so I was intrigued and rented Bug yesterday. It was terrible, IMO. So disappointing. :neutral_face:

#26

Aww, Iā€™m really sorry you didnā€™t like itā€¦ I did, but I guess I have pretty weird taste in films :disappointed:

#27

She was also in a 1990 movie called Misery in which she played an old psychotic, sadistic, (I didnā€™t want to use those words but I donā€™t know how else to describe her character). woman who captures her favorite author and keeps him prisoner in a cabin in the woods and tortures him.

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#28

Ah, Iā€™ve read the book, many moons agoā€¦ I didnā€™t know it had been made into a film, Iā€™ll have to watch it sometime.

#29

They showed 12 Monkeys on the Television in the Psych Hospital.

It was a very strange experience seeing it in that kind of environment.

Brad Pittā€™s performance was awesome in that movie

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#30

Jamie Fox in ā€œThe Soloistā€.

He played a schizophrenic homeless man who lived on the streets of Los Angles who had attended a prestigious musical school and he was still extremely talented even though he lived on the streets.

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#31

One more role came to my mind - Edward Norton in The Fight Club, along with Brat Pitt. However, here it takes a while before it comes to light that he is disordered. Anyway, the movieā€™s great.

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#32

Omg, I canā€™t believe I forgot one of my favorites: Geoffrey Rush in Shine! Brilliant and incredibly moving.

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#33

Just watching se7en. Kevin Spacey rox here. Isnā€™t showed on the screen much though.

#34

Ralph Fiennes in Spider (David Cronenberg film)ā€¦

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#35

Any movie Mel Gibson is in.

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#36

Leonardo Dicaprio shutter Island. He was excellent