Supelice Dreadfully Boring

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

mikecashmore This film in the short time allowed gives a very real glimpse of what it is like to be a manic depressive and the effect the 'highs and lows' have on the sufferer and those who come into contact with them. You will discover that the 'highs' of a manic are addictive to him and something he can't live with or without. Mr Jones enjoys his 'highs' so much that he is willing to forsake all those that have been close to him. Richard Gere gives an excellent performance of Mr Jones and takes the audience with him in his very convincing portrayal of a bi-polar. The film echoes what happens in real life for many with bi-polar as they drive those that love them most away. The film is entertaining and educational which is a rare combination in a film. The film finishes on a positive note as Mr Jones finds someone who is willing to take him as he is and not someone controlled or deadened by mind altering drugs. Mr Jones is well worth watching.

ctmetcalfe The movie "Mr. Jones" depicts what a person with bipolar disorder would act and look like. In the movie, Mr. Jones starts off by convincing a construction manager to hire him for the day, and during that conversation he shows signs of being bipolar. He is very keen on picking up on small signals, and also he talks very rapidly and energetically. Once he started to work, it became clearer that he had a problem. He started to walk "tight rope" style on top of a building stating that he was going to fly off the top of the house and gently land on the street. After that situation he was admitted to a psychiatric ward and was misdiagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He was then medicated with 10 mg. of Haldol, and kept for 72 hours because of the mandatory 5150 hold. For the next couple of scenes he showed what manic episodes look like. Towards the middle of the movie he started to show signs of major depressive disorder, which is part of bipolar. He was lethargic and very agitated with everyone and everything that was going on around him. Like most people with bipolar, he enjoyed and embraced his manic episodes (his highs), and that is why he refused to take his lithium. When Mr. Jones was going through his therapy with Dr. Elizabeth, he told her that he couldn't go on taking his medications, because he missed his highs. It seemed that it put him in a state of depression because he wasn't able to be as sharp as he once was. I believed that Richard Gere played the role of an individual with bipolar to a tee, and this movie also did a great job showing the ethical issues of psychiatry (even if they didn't mean to).Dr. Elizabeth did many unethical things throughout this movie. The first thing that she did wrong was, when she was talking to Mr. Jones she put her hand on his shoulder, and gave him a telephone number to reach her at. This is inappropriate, because there should be no physical contact between a psychiatrist and their patient. Another example of her unethical behavior was when she gave him a ride home, and then took him out for something to eat. I know that Hollywood wanted to make this a love story, but no psychiatrist in their right mind would take a patient out to eat and give them a ride home. That type of interaction is too personal, and is considered very unethical by most psychiatrists. Another situation that stands out in my mind is when she started to investigate the past of Mr. Jones. As a therapist you need consent in order to be able to dig into your patients past records. Toward the end of the movie Dr. Elizabeth kept getting closer and closer to Mr. Jones, until finally they ended up having "relations" with one another. To me this was the most unethical thing that she did throughout the whole movie.This movie in my opinion did a great job in showing what a person with bipolar deals with everyday, and how their lives are affected by medications, and hospitalization. I think this movie made psychiatrists look really bad and unprofessional, which is a shame because most psychiatrists aren't that way. This movie made female psychiatrists look especially bad, because it gave off the impression that they sleep with their patients and get to emotionally attached to them as well. If this was real life Dr. Elizabeth would have lost her psychiatrist license, and most likely gotten sued by the hospital and possibly the patient.

Sniper315 Mr. Jones is about a man who is diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Another term for his diagnosis is manic-depressive disorder. He cycles between being ecstatic about life and going through depressive episodes. Richard Gere does an excellent job of portraying this diagnosis. In the beginning of the film, Mr. Jones is in one of his manic states, where he is high on life and thinks he can do anything. After convincing a contractor to give him a job building a roof, he decides that he is going to make like a plane and fly off of it. Luckily, a fellow construction worker manages to get him down from the roof and save his life.After this, Mr. Jones gets incarcerated at a mental institution for evaluation. He meets the other main character of the film here, Dr. Elizabeth Bowen (Lena Olin). Dr. Bowen believes that Mr. Jones needs professional help and seeks to involuntarily commit him. During a hearing for his commitment, Jones craftily convinces a judge that he is just a happy go lucky guy, and the judge sets Jones free. The trial is a key scene because it not only shows how Jones is a very quick-witted person during his manic state, but, also, Dr. Bowen reviles that people with his condition first go through the manic state, but then fall into a very deep depression.Sure enough, after one more incarceration, Jones goes through his depressive stage. This time he wanders around and doesn't know where he is. It seems like he doesn't care about life and very nearly gets killed when he steps out into traffic on a busy street. The good doctor finds Jones in this state after letting herself into his apartment. After this, Jones apparently voluntarily commits himself to the hospital where Dr. Bowen works and he undergoes counseling and drug treatment. It is reviled that Jones has previously been prescribed drugs for his condition but he "cannot live without his highs" even though it means going through his lows. Here the movie takes on aspects more like a love story rather than a movie about a mental illness.In the end, Jones gets better and he and the doctor live happily ever after, presumably. Overall it was a good film that accurately portrays Bipolar disorder. One thing that the viewer should be aware of, though, is that it is a very inaccurate depiction of how the therapist-client relationship works. Many psychologists cringe at the thought of a therapist having relations with a client, as it is a violation of trust as well as a violation of the necessary distance between both the people in the relationship.

Angus T. Cat I don't know very much about bipolar depression, aside from reading biographies of Robert Lowell, the poet. I have to say though that Richard Gere is outstanding in this movie. It started showing on ITV2 and his performance drew me into the story- I had to watch it to the end.It's a brave premise for a Hollywood film but "Mr. Jones" is let down by a flawed script. I was offended by the way the doctor was portrayed. Of course she was played by a stunning actress, of course she became attached to her patient- to the point of invading his privacy by looking up his friends from his time at music college twenty years earlier. Oh, and of course (SPOILER- in more ways than one) she slept with him as well. She offers to resign which keeps her from being professionally ruined – sorry, but I can't see a qualified and experienced psychiatrist falling in love with her patient, let along sleeping with him while he's still under treatment. The ending peters out as well- to suggest that they will become a couple, I suppose.The hospital scenes are strong and moving, as is the the subplot about the young student. This could have been an interesting study of people in emotional distress. Too bad they couldn't match Mr. Jones with unsentimental and uncompromising portraits of those trying to help him.