Group Therapy Movie

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Group Therapy Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Hosted by the Tony and Emmy award-winning performer – Neil Patrick Harris – Group Therapy is a comedy-forward documentary features Tig Notaro, Nicole Byer, Mike Birbiglia, London Hughes, Gary Gulman, and Atsuko Okatsuka, as they bravely share the intricate connections between their professional and mental health journeys. Through candid group dialogues, personal confessions, and archival stand-up footage, the film offers a revelatory, emotional, hilarious exploration into various critical conversations about mental health in our culture today. Group Therapy is a documentary directed by award-winning producer / filmmaker Neil Berkeley, director of the doc films Beauty Is Embarrassing, Harmontown, and Gilbert, plus the "Huddle for 100" doc series previously.

Sharing is therapeutic. Don't miss the world premiere of Group Therapy at Tribeca on June 6, 2024
Transcript
00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:02 I've been diagnosed depressed for over 30 years.
00:05 There has never been a better time to be mentally ill.
00:11 [LAUGHTER]
00:14 Welcome, everybody.
00:16 What we are doing today is not a comedy show.
00:21 I've never been a part of any group therapy.
00:23 Have you done group therapy?
00:24 No, certainly not with Neil Patrick Harris.
00:27 To be clear, I am not a therapist.
00:30 We got chosen as the mentally ill comedians to be in this.
00:33 From all around the world, we suck out.
00:37 I failed three grades, dropped out of high school.
00:40 I was voted least likely.
00:43 I've been running with it ever since.
00:46 I have a serious sleepwalking disorder
00:48 that got so bad that I actually jumped through a second story
00:50 window like the Hulk.
00:52 Celexa, fexa, cyprexa.
00:54 I think my doctor just said, let's try drugs that rhyme.
00:57 [LAUGHTER]
01:00 Things were happening that I don't know if I could Google.
01:03 I just felt like I was lazy and crazy.
01:04 My dad was like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
01:09 I think stand-up seems wrought with so much insecurity.
01:12 My stand-up version of me is basically
01:15 just the ultimate bad bitch.
01:16 I should try your style.
01:18 [LAUGHTER]
01:22 I would be like, oh, god.
01:24 She is my spinal fusion.
01:28 I didn't really mention that my mom has, like,
01:30 mental illness or anything with friendships
01:33 or relationships at all.
01:35 I really need this, is what I'm saying.
01:37 [LAUGHTER]
01:39 I found myself making jokes about these different things
01:45 that I hadn't been able to find humor in.
01:47 It's no surprise that I'm blonde right now.
01:50 I remember wanting to be a white girl so badly.
01:53 I thought being white was seen as beautiful.
01:57 Movies and television tell you that the psych ward
02:00 is dangerous.
02:01 And I got recognized by another patient who said,
02:04 I don't want to embarrass you, but am I crazy,
02:05 or are you Gary Goldman?
02:07 And I said, oh, you're crazy.
02:08 [LAUGHTER]
02:11 I love it when people can make jokes like that,
02:14 because it just makes you feel, oh, yeah,
02:16 we're all in this together.
02:17 And there's funny things about this and sad things about this.
02:19 And we're all just going through it.
02:22 Or get yourself a mental health designer handbag.
02:25 I do that.
02:26 I got myself a mental health Chanel bag.
02:29 Girl, it helps.
02:30 Yeah, exactly.
02:30 [LAUGHTER]
02:32 Mental health, yeah.
02:34 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:38 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:42 (music fades)
02:44 you