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PG
4.6 ★
Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) is a happy, hockey-loving 11-year-old Midwestern girl, but her world turns upside-down when she and her parents move to San Francisco. Riley's emotions -- led by Joy (Amy Poehler) -- try to guide her through this difficult, life-changing event. However, the stress of the move brings Sadness (Phyllis Smith) to the forefront. When Joy and Sadness are inadvertently swept into the far reaches of Riley's mind, the only emotions left in Headquarters are Anger, Fear and Disgust.
4.6 ★
Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) is now a 16-year-old teenager navigating the turbulent waters of high school life and her evolving interests. As she faces new challenges, including a big move to a new city and the complexities of growing up, her emotions—still led by Joy (Amy Poehler)—are once again at the helm. This time, however, Joy and her team, including Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Bill Hader), and Disgust (Mindy Kaling), are joined by new emotions grappling with Riley’s teenage experiences. As Joy continues to strive for happiness, the other emotions must confront and manage emerging feelings of Confusion and Nostalgia. When a new emotional upheaval disrupts Riley’s sense of self, Joy and Sadness (Phyllis Smith) must work together once more to restore balance in Riley’s mind and help her navigate this transformative period of her life
4.8 ★
Carl Fredricksen, a 78-year-old balloon salesman, is about to fulfill a lifelong dream. Tying thousands of balloons to his house, he flies away to the South American wilderness. But curmudgeonly Carl's worst nightmare comes true when he discovers a little boy named Russell is a stowaway aboard the balloon-powered house. A Pixar animation.
**Warning: Sensitive themes**
Emotional trauma
4.6 ★
Marlin (Albert Brooks), a clown fish, is overly cautious with his son, Nemo (Alexander Gould), who has a foreshortened fin. When Nemo swims too close to the surface to prove himself, he is caught by a diver, and horrified Marlin must set out to find him. A blue reef fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) -- who has a really short memory -- joins Marlin and complicates the encounters with sharks, jellyfish, and a host of ocean dangers. Meanwhile, Nemo plots his escape from a dentist's fish tank.
PG-13
4.5 ★
Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures. As weeks progress and Susannah quickly moves deeper into insanity, her behaviors shift from violence to catatonia. After a series of tantrums, misdiagnoses, and a lengthy hospital stay, a doctor's last-minute intervention enables him to give her a diagnosis and a chance to rebuild her life.
**Warning: Sensitive themes**
Medical trauma
Violence
Mental health crisis
Hallucinations
4.8 ★
Based on the true story of prominent mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr, who seemed to be guaranteed a promising future when he won international acclaim as a result of his pioneering work in the field. After he is recruited to assist the military with top-secret code-breaking duties, the high-pressure job takes its toll on him, and he begins to develop a mental illness.
**Warning: Sensitive themes**
Schizophrenia
Delusions
Paranoia
4.3 ★
Stressed by adolescence, 16-year-old Craig Gilner (Keir Gilchrist) checks himself into a mental-health clinic. Unfortunately, the youth wing is closed, so he must spend his mandated five-day stay with adults. One of them, Bobby (Zach Galifianakis), quickly becomes his mentor -- and protege, while Craig finds himself drawn to a fellow teen, Noelle (Emma Roberts), who just may be the cure he needs to forget an unrequited crush.
**Warning: Sensitive themes**
Depression
Suicide ideation and self-harm
Rated R
4.2 ★
Ellen is an unruly 20-year-old anorexic girl who spent the better part of her teenage years being shepherded through various recovery programs, only to find herself several pounds lighter every time. Determined to find a solution, her dysfunctional family agrees to send her to a group home for youths, which is led by a non-traditional doctor. Surprised by the unusual rules, Ellen must discover for herself how to confront her addiction and attempt self-acceptance.
**Warning: Sensitive themes**
Eating disorders >> GRAPHIC depictions of anorexia nervosa
Self-harm
Body dysmorphia
4.5 ★
Honor student Tracy Freeland (Evan Rachel Wood) has a troubling home life, but she is close to her mother, Melanie (Holly Hunter). While trying to conceal her inner turmoil by excelling academically, she befriends the calculating Evie (Nikki Reed), her school's queen bee. Evie talks Tracy into experimenting with drugs, exploring her sexuality and pickpocketing strangers to finance shopping sprees -- but before long, Melanie realizes she must step in and stop her daughter's destructive lifestyle.
**Warning: Sensitive themes**
Underage drinking & drug use
Self-harm and suicide
Sexual content
Abuse
4.7 ★
After losing his job and wife, and spending time in a mental institution, Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) winds up living with his parents (Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver). He wants to rebuild his life and reunite with his wife, but his parents would be happy if he just shared their obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), who offers to help him reconnect with his wife, if he will do something very important for her in exchange.
**Warning: Sensitive themes**
Graphic depictions of bipolar disorder
Domestic violence
4.7 ★
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, "Girl, Interrupted" is the searing true story of Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder), a young woman who finds herself at a renowned mental institution for troubled young women, where she must choose between the world of people who belong on the inside -- like the seductive and dangerous Lisa (Angelina Jolie) -- or the often difficult world of reality on the outside.
**Warning: Sensitive themes**
Graphic depictions of mental illness, including bipolar personality disorder and depression
Self-harm and suicide
Substance abuse