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Sunny Intervals and Showers
Living with Bipolar Disorder
| Length: | 60 min |
| Released: | 2006 |
| Ages: |
College Adult |
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Following behavioral episodes caused by his bipolar disorder, Dr. Allan Levi finds himself suspended from work and in trouble at home. Filmed in the year after his diagnosis, Sunny Intervals and Showers is an intimate and ironic portrait of a marriage in crisis. Endearing yet self-obsessed, Allan leaves a career as a medical researcher and university professor to start a business selling model airplanes while his wife Jackie, a doctor, struggles with the unexpected role of being a “caregiver” for a mentally ill husband. But is Allan's increasingly frenetic lifestyle evidence of illness, eccentricity, or simply hard work?
This warm, humorous, and poignant documentary allows viewers to draw their own conclusions about the nature of truth, reality, and madness.
This warm, humorous, and poignant documentary allows viewers to draw their own conclusions about the nature of truth, reality, and madness.
"Levitt's superb documentary touches the core of the all-consuming psychic beast that is bipolar disorder. It reveals how understanding and familial support after the disease may not prevent the "sufferer's" own continued struggle, regardless of medication and treatment."
‒ Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo, President, American Psychological Association and Professor, Stanford University
"Sunny Intervals and Showers is a profound contribution . . . that manages to portray all the mess and backchat of family life better than any film I can remember. I cannot imagine a richer resource—other than, God forbid, living the situation oneself."
‒ Professor Michael Rabiger, Columbia College
‒ Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo, President, American Psychological Association and Professor, Stanford University
"Sunny Intervals and Showers is a profound contribution . . . that manages to portray all the mess and backchat of family life better than any film I can remember. I cannot imagine a richer resource—other than, God forbid, living the situation oneself."
‒ Professor Michael Rabiger, Columbia College
Western Psychological Association 2007
International Society for Affective Disorders (ISAD) Conference, Lisbon, 2006
Chicago International Documentary Festival, 2005
One World Human Rights Film Festival, Prague, Berlin and Bratislava, 2005
Independent Feature Project, NY, 2005
International Society for Affective Disorders (ISAD) Conference, Lisbon, 2006
Chicago International Documentary Festival, 2005
One World Human Rights Film Festival, Prague, Berlin and Bratislava, 2005
Independent Feature Project, NY, 2005
