Mental (2012)

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Mental is a 2012 comedy-drama film written and directed by P. J. Hogan. The film stars Toni Collette, Anthony LaPaglia, Liev Schreiber, and Rebecca Gibney. It follows a hitchhiker transforming a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five teenage girls whose mother has cracked from her husband's political ambitions and his infidelity.

Production

Director P. J. Hogan based the script on his own mother's mental breakdown when he was 12, and his politician father's refusal to tell anyone about his wife's illness in case it hurt his electoral chances. As in the film, Hogan's father recruited a hitchhiker to babysit the family.

"I came home from school and there was this strange woman rolling a cigarette, knife in her boot, dog beside her, and she said, 'Bit of a mess in here, innit?'" Hogan recalled. "That was the woman who took care of us … she pretty much lived with us, I remember, for six to eight months, even after my mum returned home, because they got on."

When shooting Muriel's Wedding, Hogan and his producer wife Jocelyn Moorhouse would entertain Toni Collette with stories about the real 'Shaz'. "Toni just said, 'You've got to make a film about this woman, and if you do, I'm playing her.'" Hogan's sister also has schizophrenia, and told him, "You should put me in a movie. I want people to know what it's like."

Mental was filmed on location in Banora Point, Ballina, Evans Head and Tweed Heads, New South Wales, and Coolangatta and the Gold Coast, Queensland.

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