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Running from Crazy is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Barbara Kopple released in USA on 20 january 2013 with Margaux Hemingway
Running from Crazy (2013)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 20 january 2013
Length 1h45
Directed by Barbara Kopple
OriginUSA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Rating64%
Running from Crazy is a 2013 documentary film by director Barbara Kopple about the family of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway. It was shown at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Through the eyes of Mariel Hemingway, who received an Oscar nomination for her role in Woody Allen's 1979 film Manhattan and who has spoken for American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, it chronicles the story of three of the author's grandchildren, Mariel, Margaux Hemingway and Joan "Muffet" Hemingway, daughters of Jack Hemingway, and their struggles with the family history of substance abuse, mental illness and suicide.
The film, focusing on suicide and mental health issues, was promoted on the Oprah Winfrey Network, which had the television premiere of the film on April 27, 2014.
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Mariel comments early in the film on the fact that seven family members have committed suicide, including Ernest and Margaux. Ernest shot himself a few months before his granddaughter Mariel was born.Actors
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