Welcome to Another Monday Post Here at FYB featuring the 2001 Movie MANIC Directed by Jordan Melamed which was Written By Micheal BaCall and Blayne Weaver and Stars Joseph Gordon- Levitt. I thought this would be an Excellent Monday Post since Mondays are the Most Dreaded Day of the Week, and has the Infamous Reputation for being The Shittiest Day of the Entire Week.
Storyline: The Movie Follows the Fate of Lyle Johnson (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) a Troubled Teen who is Prone to Sudden and Violent Outbursts. After Brutally Beating a Fellow Teen with a Baseball Bat at a Game Lyle in Lieu of Prison, is Committed to the Juvenile Ward of a Mental Hospital. In the Mental Institution Lyle encounters a Motley Crue of Equally Lost and Troubled Teens just Trying to get by in Life by the Skin of Their Teeth. The Group of His Fellow Wayward Teens becomes Lyle’s Last Life Line as He Struggles to find Meaning in a World that Seems to Defy Understanding.
From The Critics:
“Powerful film packed with profanity and brutality.”
-Nell Minow (Common Sense Media)-
“Shows more hopelessness than optimism but it never less than honest.”
-Micheal O’Sullivan (Washington Post)-
“It’s an undemonstrative, vividly authentic film.”
-Derek Adams (Empire Magazine)-
Thanks For Watching,
Presented By Les Sober