Self Medicated (2005)
- Directed by
- Monty Lapica
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A troubled teenager is kidnapped at age 17 by a private company on his mother's orders and locked into a psychiatric institute. The film follows his struggle to survive and escape the facility.
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What happens
Self Medicated is a 2005 American teen drama film written, directed by and starring Monty Lapica. Based on actual events in Lapica's life, the film is about a troubled teenager whose mother has him kidnapped at age 17 by a private company and forcibly committed to a locked-down psychiatric institute. Lapica was not originally going to star in the film. According to the subsequent documentary, The Making of Self-Medicated (2007), he did so after casting calls failed to produce a suitable candidate. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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