Mental is the movie you’d get if Nanny McPhee wasn’t magical but instead was mentally imbalanced. Mental reunites the writer/director of Muriel’s Wedding, PJ Hogan, with that film’s star, Toni Collette, in a comedy which also features Liev Schreiber, Anthony Lapaglia, Rebecca Gibney, Kerry Fox, Caroline Goodall, Deborah Mailman, and Sam Clark.
Mental hits theaters on March 29, 2013.
The Plot:
The Moochmore girls are all certain they suffer from some sort of mental illness because if they’re not crazy, they’re just unpopular. The combination of Shirley’s five rambunctious daughters and her philandering husband, Barry, becomes too much for her to bear and she is committed to a mental institution.
Barry, a small-time politician, is left to take care of five girls who he barely knows. Overwhelmed, he impulsively picks up Shaz, a colorful hitchhiker on the side of the road, and installs her as the girls’ nanny. Shaz is charismatic, hot-tempered, inspiring, and completely nuts. However, she proves to be exactly what the Moochmore family needs.
