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- TriviaA failed effort to ban the film in California helped trigger a statewide investigation of state hospitals that uncovered the deaths of more than 1,100 mental patients. Then news reporter Taylor Hackford said the film stirred the biggest news story of the year. It was featured in a story on CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.
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A look at coercive drugging in mental institutions.
This documentary gives a rare look at the pill-pushing that goes on in our mental institutions, and how it serves as a substitute for real therapy and facilitates the warehousing of the lost souls that end up in such situations.
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- bcrow
- Mar 22, 1999
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