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Magic in the Water
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CastMark Harmon, Joshua Jackson, Harley Jane Kozak, Sarah Wayne
Year released1995
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Do we see Shared Psychotic Disorder here?
Frank appears intoxicated. (0:00)
Radio talk show host Jack Black tells caller Maggie, "... testosterone is going to destroy the world?"
”... speaking as... your radio therapist...”
Caller #2: ”... call yourself a therapist... isn’t modern therapy.”
Jack: ”Modern therapy is the problem...”
Caller #2: ”... work I’ve done on my inner child...”
Jack: ”... advice for your inner child...” (0:02)
Their mother Beth tells Jack’s kids Ashley and Joshua, "Hey, don't worry..." (0:05)
Sign: "PSYCHIATRIST"
Group psychotherapy (0:08)
Joshua: "Looks like some demented teepee..." (0:10)
Josh answers Jack, referring to Ashley, "Hormones." (0:13)
Jack tells Ashley, "Don’t worry about it, honey..."
Joe Pickled Trout, referring to Uncle Kipper: ”... We keep him sedated.” (0:16)
Books: "HANDBOOK OF PSYCHIATRIC THERAPIES," “B. F. Skinner” (0:22)
Psychiatrist Wanda Bell answers Jack, showing him a prescription bottle, "Uh, I have a patient here, sedatives."
”Well, actually I’m a psychiatrist.”
”You’re a psychiatrist?”
Jack: ”... How could anyone be neurotic up here?...”
Wanda: ”... practicing general medicine... group of men who all have an identical psychosis.”
”... believe they’ve been inhabited by a lake monster.” (0:23)
Ashley tells the monster, "... highway perverts." (0:28)
Jack appears to have suffered a traumatic head injury.
Wanda tells Ashley, referring to Jack, "... a mild craniocerebral trauma, a concussion.”
Jack regains consciousness.
Jack: ”I had the weirdest dream.” (0:30)
Josh, referring to a boy: "Dad, he’s a moron." (0:37)
Wanda, in group psychotherapy: "Frank,... you were describing the euphoria you experienced during your hallucination with the monster..."
Patient: ”Frank, don’t worry.”
Patient: ”I’m not a nut.” (0:38)
Wanda tells Kipper’s nurse, "... Here’s the new supply of sedatives." (0:51)
Wanda asks Jack, "... Do you always make fun of your patients?" (0:52)
Wanda administers a projective test to Jack.
Jack answers Wanda, ”... That was a dream...”
Wanda: ”... you have taken on the psychoses of my other patients.”
Jack: ”That was just a dream...” (0:53)
Josh tells Ashley, referring to Jack, "... get him locked up for good... in some loony bin..."
Josh rages. (0:57)
Josh tells Ashley, referring to Kipper: "This guy’s gone wacko."
”... artificial sugar high...”
Kipper puts pills in the nurse’s coffee. (0:59)
Kipper asks Josh and Ashley, "... Did you ever have dreams about flying?"
”... putting toxins in the lake.” (1:02)
Ashley tells Jack, "... you’re not crazy..."
Jack: ”... It was only a dream.”
Prescription bottle (1:05)
Mack Miller: "That colossal idiot." (1:13)
Miller tells Wright and Lefty Hardy, "That little idiot..."
”... you moron...” (1:16)
Jack tells the kids, "... This place was in my dream..." (1:21)
Josh: "It could be the toxins, Dad." (1:23)
The sheriff tells Jack, "Don’t be silly..." (1:26)
Ashley: "Is this one of those metaphors, Dad?"
Jack: ”When did you get so smart?” (1:31)