Mad to Be Normal

Mad to Be Normal

2017106 min5.9 / 10

A cerebral, historically grounded drama about an iconoclastic psychiatrist's radical experiment in treating mental illness through community and unconventional methods in 1960s London.

The story of Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London in the 1960s.

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