Storyline

The film follows the harrowing experience of a writer struggling with a rare neurological disease from when she first suffers symptoms to the many attempts at diagnosing it and the eventual discovery of the real cause of her illness. Based on the book, 'Brain On Fire', the true story of Susannah Cahalan, a journalist for the New York Post.

Plot Keywords

female journalist, journalist, hospital, what happened to epilogue, ends with real life photos, bare chested male, male nudity, psychosis, visual hallucination, brain scan, diagnosis, medical examination, seizure, hallucination, male rear nudity

Short Review

We watch Chloe Grace Moretz's epic meltdown from a bored distance, until the drama remembers its lost calling as a disease-of-the-week movie. At that point, we receive the abrupt news of a cure with an indifferent shrug.

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