Committed (2011) Reviews

• Decent fare that captivates you for about 75% of the movie

  caiged2011-08-04

  Thank Goodness I had already seen the movie before I searched for the movie on IMDb because the only other review is absolutely horrendous, in the sense that it's not just spoils the plot of the move it completely ruins it. Basically the other reviewer reveals every single thing that's worth finding out for yourself. I must be going through a phase because this is another TV movie that's left me a bit impressed. It's not eerie nor chilling but there is a definite mystery that intrigues you in the first 15 mins. By the time you unravel the mystery you may as well just finish watching it, and that's not a bad thing. The plot's semi decent, offering some neat twists and turns that keeps you wondering whether Celeste is really a psychiatrist or if she's delusional. And then there also some other weird instances that keeps the plot ticking over. Andrea Roth puts in a good performance in the lead role and she's convincing enough as a psychiatrist. Many of the women cast in a lead TV role have mostly been chosen for one thing: their looks, and often enough they don't fit the bill of the character. But Andrea pull its off. While some of her actions in trying to escape are a little over the top and ludicrous you do feel for her while she's trying to hang onto her sanity. If you have the time and want to watch something with a cup of tea or hot chocolate on a cold night I'd recommend this movie. It certainly beats out some of the Hollywood titles out there at the moment.

• Going Crazy at the Insane Institute

  wes-connors2014-06-21

  Following the tragic shooting death of her fiancé, attractive blonde Andrea Roth (as Celeste Dupont) takes a psychiatric position at the remote "Millburn Institute". The newly arrived doctor is told no Internet service exists and the place is too distant for cell phones. Uh-oh. This should have driven Ms. Roth out to her car for a quick retreat, but we're already too late in the story for that as Roth is shown to her room in the area reserved for the insane. Informed she is there as a patient, not a doctor, Roth makes some futile attempt to escape. When they fail, she tries to play along with the doctors and figure out how she ended up being "Committed". Roth's case is given to bedside mannerly Richard Burgi (as Desmond Moore) and the mystery deepens... There are a couple of startling moments and some suspense in "Committed". Director Norma Bailey, editor Ron Wisman and photographer Michael Storey contribute some good work. Roth is okay as the confused heroine, but her heightened eyebrows are sometimes distracting. Featured players making the most of their screen time are handsome young rape fantasy Sebastian Pigott (as Bobby Gow) and beautifully grayed poet Linda Thorson (as Isadora), who first impressed in as sexy TV "Avenger" Tara King. Lower key, but just as much fun are headmaster Peter MacNeill (as Quille), absent-minded Liisa Repo-Martell (as Donneymeade) and other assorted cuckoos. This TV movie is genuinely intriguing, but falters significantly in the final 15 minutes. Committed (4/17/11) Norma Bailey ~ Andrea Roth, Richard Burgi, Sebastian Pigott, Linda Thorson

• Who are the real nuts at the nut house?

  PhantomAgony2011-09-04

  NO SPOILERS UNTIL VERY END - CLEARLY MARKED After the death of her fiancé, Celeste DuPont (Andrew Roth), a clinical psychologist, accepts a coveted position at Millburn Institute, a remote psychiatric facility for the criminally insane located somewhere in New England. When she arrives, she is greeted by her to be mentor, Dr. Quilley who explains to her that at the facility, the patients are called 'guests' and that they let the guests be who they think they are, no matter how grand the delusion. After quickly signing what she thinks is her contract, Celeste is lead to her room at the facility where she will be staying. After finding out that her room is in the same wing as the guests, she questions if the other doctors also have to live amongst the guests and that it makes her uncomfortable. Celeste is told that she is a guest herself and that no doctors live in that wing. After confronting Dr. Quilley about the mix up, she is informed that she actually had signed papers committing herself (not a job contract) to Millburn Institute and that in a moment of lucidity, she had called the facility for help - since she supposedly was not dealing with her fiancé's tragic death well. Celeste insists that she's not crazy and that it's a mix up while Dr. Quilley and the other doctors, including Desmond (Richard Burgi), who she becomes close with, tell her that she has blocked out the painful memories of her fiancé's passing and that she's crying out for help and they are there to help her & fill in the pieces. Even though Celeste is a guest there, it is important to note that she is allowed to also interact with the other guests as a doctor and consult on cases with the other doctors. Things are not as they seem. Celeste increasingly has moments where she comes across as crazy for example, she will claim that certain things happened or that she saw certain things that the doctors will tell her simply didn't happen. Of course, when she tries to prove them wrong, she's met with confusion since the proof is never to be found. For example, she claims that one night she was attacked by an aggressive patient at the facility and in the struggle, a lamp and water pitcher were broken yet when she leads the doctors to the room where it happened, everything is in order and the lamp and pitcher are intact making Celeste question her own sanity. Is Celeste really crazy? Did she really murder her fiancé (rather than it being a suicide) like the doctors are telling her she did? She can't remember what happened so she starts to believe them. Do the doctors mean her harm or are they trying to really help her? Committed answers all these question and takes the audience on a suspenseful, thrilling ride. I certainly didn't buy everything the movie was trying to sell me/trick me with BUT I didn't guess the truth about what was really happening before it was revealed which was really nice. I thought it was slightly above average for a Lifetime film. 6/10. SPOILERS - I won't give away the truth about what was really happening at Millburn Institute but I will say that I didn't believe for a second that Celeste was really crazy. I was well aware at all times that the doctors were playing mind tricks on her - I just didn't know why. Also, at the end I thought the quick cut from Celeste knocking out Desmond/Damon to suddenly the cops being at the facility leading the bad guys away was really sloppy. Earlier in the film Celeste managed to call 911 but the operator didn't believe that she was really in danger but instead, assumed she was a deranged patient who was lying. How did Celeste manage to get the real police to show up? How did she avoid all the other doctors who had a lot to lose if she called the cops? This is never explained which bothered me. It felt rushed.

• I think a time in the country will do me good

  sol-kay2011-05-06

  ***SPOILERS*** After her fiancée Paul Bernard was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound psychiatrist Celeste Dupont, Andera Roth, had a severe nervous breakdown. It's in Celeste being accepted in a top position at the Millburn Institute in the wilds of New Jersey is what seemed to be just the right medicine for her recovery. As soon as Celeste entered Millburn she noticed that things were a bit odd in the people who run it starting with it's director Dr. Quilley, Peter MacNeill. Everyone seems as if their either on drugs or lobotomized! In trying to figure out what exactly is going on in Millburn Celeste is shocked to find out from the places's personnel director Mrs. Donneymeade, Linda-Repo Martell, that she's not a doctor but in fact a patient there! At first thinking that she's being treated for her depression, in her guilt-feelings about Paul's death, Celeste later finds out that she's in fact perfectly all right! It's those running the place like Dr. Quilley and her personal psychiatrist Desmond Busby, Richard Burgi, who are the one's who need to be treated but the shocking thing about all that is that they the lunatics are the one's running the asylum! Once you realize what's going on at the Millburn Institute there's nothing really left to surprise you. Celeste by uncovering the scam by Dr.Quilley, who's really escaped mental patient and homicidal psycho Rupert Preston, as well as his top kick or aid Desmond Busby are pulling she's now in danger of being murdered by them in order to keep their crazy secret secret. It's never really explained what exactly Quilley, or Preston, and Busby were trying to pull off in them taking control of the Millburn Institute but no explanation was really necessary. They were both as mad as a mad hatter and their bizarre actions fit the bill, or hat size, in the crazy and murderous things that they did!****SPOILER ALERT**** Which included in crazy Desmond turning on his partner in crime Quilley, or Preston, for no explainable or rational reason when in one of his rare lucid moments Quilley made some sense in what to do to keep the entire scam form getting out of hand. As for Celeste she escapes being murdered by a deranged and committable Desmond by one of the few patients in Millburn Evan Franklin,Paul Fauteux, who still had some of his marbles left in him coming, from what seemed like out of nowhere, to her rescue. But we didn't get to see what turned out to be the hero of the film-Evan Franklin-until the movie was almost over!

• Makes you think

  fee_tambo2015-08-05

  This is a great subject for a film, and it does start off very promisingly. I worked in a psychiatric ward for several years and when patients were sectioned,I would often think 'what if that person is telling the truth and nobody believes them?'. The family have all the power and we all know how fractured families are! The actors in this film are all very good, it's a shame they've not been heard of outside TV movies, the story becomes quite dry about 3/4 through but it's no fault of the actors, it's the writing so I'd definitely recommend that you you'd watch this film, if only to have some food for thought, and to see some of the very underrated acting!