Dendy Cinemas: From Our Archives: Mental

Mental

Release Date: 4 October 2012

This movie is from our archive and is not currently screening.

Starring Liev Schreiber, Toni Collette, Anthony LaPaglia.
Directed by PJ Hogan.
Classification: MA15+ (Strong coarse language and themes), 116 mins.

The Moochmore girls 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 - unable to cope with her demanding daughters and unsupported by her philandering politician husband, Barry - 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 5 teenage girls he barely knows. Desperate, he impulsively picks up a hitchhiker named Shaz and installs her in his home as nanny to his daughters.