When patients' rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients in hospitals, she is meeting a woman who will make it her mission to transform Colette's workaholic life.
Director: Bille August
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Tambor, Richard Riddell, Michael Culkin, Johan Heldenbergh, Tim Plester, Jonathan Kerrigan, Vincent Riotta, Anneika Rose, Richard Laing, Kathleen Renish, Tim Ahern, AnnaCorey, Steve Warky Nunez