
In New Orleans, Madison Walker suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID) and tries to commit suicide. She is treated together with other patients by the psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Barnes. Madison has an estranged mother, who is a religious fanatic woman, and her father was neglectful with her when she was younger. When Madison leaves the psychiatric hospital, she goes to her old apartment. Then she decides to lock herself in the apartment for thirty day expecting to f... (Full plot summary below)
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In New Orleans, Madison Walker suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID) and tries to commit suicide. She is treated together with other patients by the psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Barnes. Madison has an estranged mother, who is a religious fanatic woman, and her father was neglectful with her when she was younger. When Madison leaves the psychiatric hospital, she goes to her old apartment. Then she decides to lock herself in the apartment for thirty day expecting to find why she is so messed up since she has neither friend not a job. On the 30th day, Madison makes an important discovery about Dr. Barnes and her patients.
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| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfConsumed with ambiguity and obvious mood while its critical sense of humanity is pushed aside for low-budget dreamscape showboating. Writer/director Katherine Brooks has passion, but her feel for storytelling is seriously tangled. |
| Times-PicayuneMike Scott(It) boasts strong technical elements and some fine performances ..., a promising but ultimately undistinguished stepping stone in Brooks' filmmaking career. |
| User ReviewJally JBasically the same idea as in the movie "the ward" only that this idea is being upgraded at the end... so even a better one |
| User ReviewElizabeth RUna buena historia donde los trastornos de personalidades multiples/ esquizofrenia son la trama principal de la pelicula...un tema bastante diferente con un final sorprendente...vale la pena ver |
| User ReviewJanet LOnce again I get scared of how easily I get this kind of movies. My friends were really shocked by it but to me it was pretty obvious... Anyhow I really liked the performances and the story. |
| User ReviewDeb KInteresting movie about Multiple Personality Disorders. With a Twist at the End. |
| User ReviewElaine DOr what happens when you add Identity, Girl, Interrupted and a little bit of Equus. |
| User ReviewRobert BWaking Madison (Katharine Brooks, 2010) Waking Madison suffers from what I call the Curse of Synchronicity that seems to descend upon Hollywood at least once a year. This is when two screenwriters, independently of one another, end up developing the same idea into different scripts and, because no one talks to anyone else in Hollywood, two different movies with strikingly similar subject matter end up getting released within months, or sometimes weeks, of one another. (The classic example: in 2000, the twin box-office flops Red Planet and Mission to Mars were released six months apart.) Katharine Brooks, the director of Loving Annabelle, got smacked with it here, with her fourth feature-but telling you what the other 2010 movie is that turns on this exact mechanism would give the game away, so that's all the farther I can go there. Not that it would be a huge spoiler here, since Waking Madison doesn't rely on that particular Big Twist(TM) taking us all the way to the ending; she's dropped hints all the way through that this isn't quite what it seems, starting with the opening scene of Madison (Disturbia's Sarah Roemer), on a videotape, telling herself that she has thirty days to figure out what's wrong with her, and that if she hasn't by the end of that time, she's going to commit suicide-and that she has recorded this tape as a reminder to herself, in case she forgets. Fast-forward-or are we flashing back?-and Madison is in the bin with the usual collection of folks who range from the problem-with-authority muscle-dyke (Taryn Manning, who shows more verve here than she has since White Oleander) to the teddy-bear-clutching, gently-rocking girl (28 Weeks Later...'s Imogen Poots), all under the care of Elizabeth Barnes (Leaving Las Vegas' Elisabeth Shue). Which is about all I can tell you without giving away that first (but not the last, as that opening scene presages) big twist-though I can tell you that Dr. Barnes takes a special interest in Madison's case that involves digging into her past and meeting her rather terrifying mother (The Aviator's Frances Conroy) and milquetoast father (Meek's Cutoff's Will Patton), who end up figuring into things when we get round to the final confrontation. Waking Madison is a movie that has a chance at getting retroactive play-it was the first film financed by Megan Ellison, the now-powerhouse producer behind Annapurna Pictures, among whose 2012 projects were two films nominated for Best Picture (Zero Dark Thirty and The Master), as well as cult favorites Lawless and Killing Them Softly. And if that's enough to get people to go back and see it, then that's enough-this is as good as, probably a bit better than, the other movie that runs along those same lines that got released in 2010, but got a lot wider of a release because it had a much, much bigger-name director at the helm. And if that nets Katherine Brooks a few more fans along the way, well, she deserves it. *** |
| User ReviewAnnaLu AO motivo que leva Madison a ser assim é triste, mas convicente. O problema é que o filme é muito parado, e não demora muito pra sacar os porquês dos apagões dela. Elisabeth Shue está estranha em seu papel, parece incomodada com algo o tempo todo, sei lá...A estória em si até que é boa, mas aqui acabou parecendo boba e cansativa. |
| User ReviewAnna LO motivo que leva Madison a ser assim à (C) triste, mas convicente. O problema à (C) que o filme à (C) muito parado, e não demora muito pra sacar os porquês dos apagões dela. Elisabeth Shue está estranha em seu papel, parece incomodada com algo o tempo todo, sei lá...A estória em si atà (C) que à (C) boa, mas aqui acabou parecendo boba e cansativa. |