Phoebe in Wonderland (2008) Movie review

Trainload of mental health misinformation

This is grossly irresponsible filmmaking. Having a fully-blown psychotic kid come across as somewhat unusual places the lives of such children in jeopardy for those who think they may have learned something from the film. Phoebe is having full-fledged visual & auditory hallucinations & hurting herself repeatedly in addition to the OCD, & all she gets is a couple of sessions with a dud of a psychotherapist who may as well have been in another room!

The schooljail setting is confusing with tyrannical insensitive teachers but allowing access to the catwalk above the stage & to the roof of the building! In what universe?!

Jumping from such a height would have caused at least a pile of broken bones if not death.

The acting is superb, but the misinformation about mental health & the effects of gravity is frightening.