MAD TO BE NORMAL (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

David Tennant (What We Did on Our Holiday), Elisabeth Moss (High-Rise), Michael Gambon (Viceroy’s House), David Bamber (The King’s Speech), Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects), Rebecca Gethings (David Brent: Life on the Road), Trevor White (The Dark Knight Rises), Olivia Poulet (In The Loop), Nigel Barber (SPECTRE), Jerome Holder (Shank), Adam Paul Harvey (Son of Rambow)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Robert Mullan (We Will Sing), director, writer; Tracy Moreton (film debut), writer; Charlotte Arden (A Queer Country), Phin Glynn (film debut) and Alan Latham (I Could Never Be Your Woman), producers; Laurie Yule (The Man Under The Sea), composer, editor; Ali Asad (Rise of the Footsoldier), cinematographer

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

During the 1960s, world-renowned Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing (Tennant) sets up a unique community of patients and therapists at Kingsley Hall in East London, shocking the psychiatry world with its unorthodox but effective methods…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

David Tennant is having a blast playing the renowned psychiatrist RD Laing, in this film which documents the unique project he undertook during the 1960s at Kingsley Hall.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

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