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Brain on Fire is a canadien film of genre Drama released in USA on 31 december 2016 with Chloë Grace Moretz

Brain on Fire (2017)

Brain on Fire
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Released in USA 31 december 2016
Length 1h35
OriginCanada
Genres Drama
Rating66% 3.310183.310183.310183.310183.31018

Brain on Fire is an upcoming American-Canadian-Irish biographical drama film directed and written by Gerard Barrett, based on Susannah Cahalan's memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Jenny Slate, Thomas Mann, Tyler Perry, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Richard Armitage. Principal photography began on July 13, 2015, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Synopsis

A journalist at the New York Post named Susannah Cahalan starts having serious health issues, including seizures and hearing voices. As weeks pass, her condition worsens and she quickly moves from violence to catatonia. After numerous misdiagnoses and a hospitalization, one doctor finally gives her a diagnosis and hope to rebuild her life. One day Cahalan wakes up in the hospital with no memory at all of her previous month.

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