Clean, Shaven

(1995)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 105 votes

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Year: 1995

Runtime: 79 мин

Country: United States of America, Canada

Director: Lodge Kerrigan

Cast: Питер Грин, Robert Albert, Megan Owen, Jennifer MacDonald, Molly Castelloe, J. Dixon Byrne, Alice Levitt, Eliot Rockett, Karen MacDonald, Lee Kayman

Plot

Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. He attempts to function in a world that, for him, is filled with strange voices, electrical noise, disconcerting images, and jarringly sudden emotional shifts. During his quest, he runs afoul of the law and an ongoing murder investigation.

Clean shaven a tough film for some to take, but it contains by far the most honest and moving portrait of schizophrenia every put on the screen. Peter Greene portrays a young man who'd been instatutionalised. Now outside, he's desperately trying to find a way to both function in the world, and to search for his young daughter, who he had before being hospitalised, and had only seen as an infant. It's a hard film for some to watch, but it's also highly rewarding -especially in Mr Green's riveting performance.