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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Fisher Klingenstein Films
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Fisher Klingenstein Films
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary Can you make a movie while having mental illness? Bud Clayman is doing it. Will making a documentary about your mental illness change your life? Maybe. Mental illness interrupted Bud's dream of a filmmaking career. Thirty years later, he’s making the movie of his life. This is a personal story with universal relevance as Bud documents hi...

Directed By: Bud Clayman, Glenn Holsten, Scott Johnston

Written By: Bud Clayman, Scott Johnston

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Fisher Klingenstein Films
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • Fisher Klingenstein Films
  • 1 h 40 m

OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary Can you make a movie while having mental illness? Bud Clayman is doing it. Will making a documentary about your mental illness change your life? Maybe. Mental illness interrupted Bud's dream of a filmmaking career. Thirty years later, he’s making the movie of his life. This is a personal story with universal relevance as Bud documents hi...

Directed By: Bud Clayman, Glenn Holsten, Scott Johnston

Written By: Bud Clayman, Scott Johnston

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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27% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
66
73% Positive
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80
Jun 8, 2012
OC87 serves both its subject and its viewers well by chronicling a process that is actually insightful, entertaining and apparently successful.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
75
May 25, 2012
Through it all, Clayman struggles to keep himself, and OC87, on track - and it's easy to cheer his ultimate triumph.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 8, 2012
An eye-opener about what it's like to live with a variety of mental illnesses, including obsessive-compulsive disorder -- and, however tenuously, to recover from them.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
70
May 23, 2012
To be sure, there are more artful and focused documentaries, but OC87 still stands as moving evidence that Clayman's trust in the value of the filmmaking process ultimately outweighed the extreme difficulty he says he has making even the smallest decisions.
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63
May 24, 2012
A tender, painful, and frustrating work of vulnerability, and because of this in some ways deflects critical commentary.
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60
May 24, 2012
Clayman, who co-directed with filmmaker friends, is fascinating company.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 13, 2012
It's unclear where the buck stops in terms of creative authority – at one point, Clayman complains that "the only thing I feel in control of is the money" – which renders OC87 at once a remarkable achievement, and a fatally compromised film.
By Kimberley Jones FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Therapy Productions, FreshFly
Release Date May 25, 2012
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://filmrise.com/oc87-the-obsessive-compulsive-major-depression-bipolar-aspergers-movie/
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Awards

Philadelphia Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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