SYNOPSIS

David Tennant of Doctor Who fame stars as 1960’s celebrity psychiatrist R.D.Laing who revolutionised the treatment of people diagnosed as ‘mad’. ‘Mad To Be Normal’ reveals the story of R.D. Laing, the famous psychiatrist and one of Scotland’s greatest ever minds. Working out of Kingsley Hall in East London throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Laing performed various daring experiments on people who were diagnosed as mentally disturbed. His revolutionary methods involved experimenting with LSD on his patients and practicing a form of self-healing known as metanoia, causing outrage and controversy in the medical profession and radically changing attitudes and perceptions of mental health around the world.

GENRE

Biographical / Drama Feature Film

DIRECTOR / WRITER

Robert Mullan

CAST

David Tennant (Doctor Who) Sir Michael Gambon (Harry Potter), Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) Gabriel Byrne (In Treatment) David Bamber(Rome)

PRODUCED BY

Charlotte Arden, Phin Glynn, Alan Latham (Gizmo Films, Bad Penny Productions, GSP Studios)

INTERNATIONAL SALES

Samuel Goldwyn Films: www.samuelgoldwynfilms.com/mad-to-be-normal/

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