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Mad To Be Normal is the story of controversial Scottish psychiatrist, R.D. Laing and the infamous anti-psychiatry experiment he ran at Kingsley Hall- a medication-free sanctuary which made headlines around the world.
During the 1960s and 1970s Laing was an international celebrity. In Santa Monica, 4,000 people turned out to see him perform a lecture, a week after Bob Dylan had pulled in the same number. A radio journalist confidently referred to him as the “white Martin Luther King.”
His books topped student reading lists the world over, as his language excited and enthralled them: “a child born today stands a 10 times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university….perhaps it is our very way of educating them that is driving them mad… [and]…”so- called ‘normal men’ have in the last 50 years killed perhaps 100 million of their fellow normal men”. It was opinions like these which turned the psychiatric establishment against him.
Original Release
04/06/2017
US Release
02/16/2018
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Cast
Name | Character |
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David Tennant | R.D. Laing / RD Laing |
Elisabeth Moss | Angie Wood |
Michael Gambon | Sydney Kotok |
Gabriel Byrne | Jim |
David Bamber | Dr. Meredith |
Rebecca Gethings | Jane Simons |
Olivia Poulet | Maria |
Trevor White | Bryan |
Caitlin Innes Edwards | Mrs. Kotok / Mrs Kotok |
Linda Hargreaves | Mrs. Holding / Mrs Holding |
Directors
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Cast
Name | Character |
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David Tennant | R.D. Laing / RD Laing |
Elisabeth Moss | Angie Wood |
Michael Gambon | Sydney Kotok |
Gabriel Byrne | Jim |
David Bamber | Dr. Meredith |
Rebecca Gethings | Jane Simons |
Olivia Poulet | Maria |
Trevor White | Bryan |
Caitlin Innes Edwards | Mrs. Kotok / Mrs Kotok |
Linda Hargreaves | Mrs. Holding / Mrs Holding |
Nigel Barber | Dr. Bloom / Dr Bloom |
David Annen | Psychiatrist |
Adam Paul Harvey | Paul Zemmell |
Philip Gascoyne | Psychiatrist |
Martin Bratanov | East London Neighbour |
Zak Holland | Teenager on Bike |
Alexandra Finnie | Suzie Laing |
Jerome Holder | John Holding |
Matthew Jure | Richard Long |
Darren Whitfield | Cockney |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Kirsty Bell | Executive Producer |
Peter Gerard Dunphy | Executive Producer |
Victor Glynn | Executive Producer |
Peter Hampden | Executive Producer |
Julian Hicks | Executive Producer |
Norman Merry | Executive Producer |
Charlie Wood | Executive Producer |
Charlotte Arden | Producer |
Liane Escorza | Producer |
Phin Glynn | Producer |
Harriet Hammond | Producer |
Alan Latham | Producer |