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CastFlorian David Fitz, Karoline Herfurth, Heino Ferch, Katharina Müller-Elmau, Johannes Allmayer, Karin Thaler, Tim Seyfi, Cristoph Zrenner, Ulrich Boris Pöppl, Lothar Lengowski, Markus Eberhard
Year released2010
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At the memorial service for his mother Vincent struggles to suppress tics, then runs out of the church which is surrounded by a graveyard. (0:00)
Psychiatrist Dr. Rose tells Vincent's business executive father Robert, "Mr. Galler, treatable and curable are two very different things. Tourette's generally is not curable... it is certainly possible for some patients to lead a normal life."
"We do habit-reversal training. It's a technique which teaches you to replace a tic with another movement."
Dr. Rose asks Vincent, "What would you do if you could control the tics?" (0:04)
Patient Marie tells Vincent, "If they catch you with alcohol or drugs then you're out."
"So watch out with your weed or whatever you have under your mattress."
Vincent, struggling with tics: "Tourette's..." (0:09)
In the cafeteria Marie hides her food to pretend she has eaten it. (0:14)
Marie lights a joint. She touches Vincent which triggers a series of tics. (0:15)
Vincent asks Alexander, "Are you crazy?"
Alexander: "Are you crazy?" (0:20)
Marie: "You're crazy, Alex." (0:26)
Gas station attendant: "Are you insane?"
Marie tells Alex, referring to Vincent, "His Tourette's, you idiot. (0:28)
Vincent's father Robert tells Dr. Rose, referring to Vincent, "He's retarded."
Dr. Rose: "Retarded?"
"Alex has OCD, Marie has anorexia."
"They are my patients." (0:29)
Marie turns down offers of food from Vincent. (0:31)
Dr. Rose tells Robert, "I came along to find my patients." (0:34)
Robert tells Dr. Rose as smokes a cigarette, "I stopped three years ago. Cold turkey." (0:37)
Robert tells Vincent, "You're crazy... You must have some screws loose." (0:39)
Dr. Rose tells Robert, "Everything you just said is a reason for therapy."
"Projection." (0:42)
Robert, referring to Vincent: "That moron." (0:44)
Marie asks Vincent, "Can you tell me when the tics come?" (0:45)
"You drive me nuts." (0:48)
Vincent tells Marie, "There's a clown in my head that shits between my synapses."
"Why don't you eat anything?" (0:49)
Robert tells Dr. Rose, "I can't sleep."
Robert, referring to Marie, "Does therapy help her?" (0:51)
Marie and Vincent share a joint."
Alex: "Are you smoking weed?"
Marie, "Smoking pot numbs the pain, Alex."
Marie tells Vincent, referring to Dr. Rose: "She used to have an eating disorder too." (0:53)
Alex tells Marie, referring to Vincent, "He has Tourette's and now he wants to climb a mountain." (0:57)
Marie purges. (1:09)
Vincent tics. (1:10)
Vincent tells Alex, "You left us there like idiots."
Alex, referring to Marie: "Because she can't resist your tics? She just wants to starve to death."
Marie: "Are you crazy, Alex?" (1:11)
Dr. Rose asks Robert, referring to Vincent, "When did he start showing symptoms?" (1:14)
Alex recoils at Dr. Rose's touch. (1:23)
Dr. Rose tells Robert, "I'm a terrible therapist." (1:24)
Maire restrained in a hospital bed. (1:24)
Remade as The Road Within