The read
Audiences rate it 28 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
The inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they're in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes50%
Metacritic42/100
Audiences rate it 28 points higher than critics do.
174 audience votes
Key crew
- Mark RosinWriter
- Bille AugustDirector
- Frans BakOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Helena Bonham CarterEleanor Riese
- Hilary SwankColette Hughes
- Jeffrey TamborMort Cohen
- Johan HeldenberghRobert
- Michael CulkinJudge Farelly
- Tim PlesterRobbie
- Jonathan KerriganDr. Bardy
- Vincent RiottaJames Adams
- Anneika RoseMargie
- Richard RiddellArno
- AnnaCoreyTiff - Jogger
- Richard LaingBen Clandon