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Mental

"Mental" reunites writer-director P.J. Hogan with his original leading lady Toni Collette for the first time since "Muriel's Wedding". The film follows the story of the Moochmore girls who are certain they all suffer from some kind of undiagnosed mental illness - because if they're not crazy then they're just unpopular. Their mother Shirley (Rebecca Gibney), unable to cope with her demanding teenage daughters and philandering politician husband, Barry (Anthony LaPaglia), suffers a nervous breakdown. After Barry commits his wife to a mental hospital (telling his constituents that she's "on holiday") he finds himself alone with five teenage girls he barely knows. Desperate, he impulsively picks up a hippy hitchhiker named Shaz (Collette) and installs her in his home as nanny to his daughters. But it soon transpires that Shaz, far from being a stabilising influence on this most dysfunctional of families, has brought along plenty of issues of her own...

Year: 2012
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Australian Film, Dysfunctional Families
Country: Australia, USA
Director: P J Hogan
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia, Caroline Goodall, Deborah Mailman, Kerry Fox, Rebecca Gibney, Toni Collette, Liev Schreiber
Duration: 116 Minutes
Rating: M - Offensive language
6.2/10
Location in store: Australian Film

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