Do you know any movies were some characters have afflictions/sicknesses?

Question

like panic attacks and stuff like that. for example the movie Black Snake Moan

Answer 1

uh Rent? the characters have aids though.. not panic attacks

Answer 2

Philadelphia

Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks brings to light the impact of the AIDS epidemic in this 1993 movie.

Time Out - The Truth About HIV / AIDS and You

A 1992 film that introduces the problem of HIV to teens and adolescents. Some information may be dated but it still is a good intro to HIV and AIDS.

A Mother's Prayer

A mother diagnosed with HIV struggles with her own fears while trying to find a family to care for her eight-year-old son.

Rent

A modern spin on the opera LA BOHEME, RENT tells the story of eight friends dealing with life and love in Manhattan's Alphabet City in 1989. Over the course of a year, the friends face poverty, drug addiction, break-ups, reconciliations, eviction, and AIDS. Despite these challenges, they find support, hope, and acceptance in each other, all the while embracing the bohemian lifestyle that was so much a part of the Lower East Side.

Carandiru (2004)

A doctor (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos) listens to inmates' stories as he tests them for HIV in a...

Life

Set within an Australian prison in a section reserved for AIDS-infected inmates, this moving but unsentimental drama, based on screenwriter/lead actor John Brumpton's 1991 play Containment, centers on the friendship and bonding that goes on between the afflicted patients. Former nightclub bouncer Des is the newest prisoner in the HIV block. He says he got the disease from Sharon, a club stripper. His new cellmate Ralph blames a blood transfusion for his illness. As Des (who is also epileptic) begins to get to know Ralph and the others, the story moves between present and past, before he was convicted. In the present, Des has trouble with a particularly cruel guard, Berwick. Other acquaintances include the tragic Snakey who watches his lover Jimmy slowly die. Ralph is also dying fairly quickly. The flashback scenes deal with Des' relationship to Sharon and Ralph's relationship with his girl friend Jane.

About Jeanne and the Perfect Guy

Jeanne has an appetite for love that can never be satisfied. Lovers at every corner of her life she is still in search of that "one". When a impromptu tryst on the subway with Olivier gives her butterflies like never before she finally finds herself in love, truly in love. Yet she continues her affairs but now with a realization that they are not what she wants, she wants Olivier. Olivier reluctant to continue the romance with Jeanne for fear of hurting her or worse yet her seeing him at his worse. Olivier reveals to Jeanne he has AIDS from a bad needle during his heroine use. This however does not scare Jeanne off and her love for him turns her into a new person who wants to care for him, but that is not what he wants. The two share a common friend that is an AIDS Activist but they don't know it. Then Olivier because severely ill and Jeanne professes her love and her infidelity. That is the last she ever sees of Olivier. She returns to the hospital to find he has left with his parents, and left no forwarding address. Much time passes, and still the pain of her lost love resides. She knows of nothing of his whereabouts and no way to find him, until she bumps in to a friend that accompanied Olivier on the subway when she met him. Then she finally learns her love has passed on. A musical about the french governments lack of concern and role in the dire conditions of their citizens and about the different classes in society from the immigrant workers, soldiers, upper class and economic dependency on credit cards. A story that covers all walks of life and the pains of love.

The Constant Gardener (2004)

The Orphanage (2007

Parting Glances

Loggerheads (2005)

Answer 3

Doc Holiday on tombstone.

Answer 4

"Mask" with Eric Stoltz and Cher. "Dying Young" with Julia Roberts. "Steel Magnolias" with Julia Roberts,Sally Fields,Shirley McClain. "A Walk To Remember" with Mandy Moore.  "The Man Without A Face" with Mel Gibson.  "The Miracle Worker" with Ann Bancroft and Patty Duke. "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon" with Liza Minnelli and Ken Howard.  "Love Story" with Ryan O'neal and Ali McGraw.  "See No Evil" with Mia Farrow.  "Philadelphia" with Tom Hanks.  "A Patch Of Blue" with Sidney Portier.   "The Notebook" with Gina Rolands and James Garner.  "Terms Of Endearment" with Debra Winger and Shirley McClain.  "Vertigo" with James Stewart.  "The Other Side of The Mountain"and "The Other Side of The Mountain Part 2"" about skier Jill Kinmont.  "Voices" with Amy Irving and Michael Ontkean.  "Longtime Companion", "Garbo Talks" with Ann Bancroft.  "Step Mom" with Susan Sarandon ,Julia Roberts , and Ed Harris.  "Autumn in New York" with Winona Ryder and Richard Gere,"Untamed Heart with Christian Slater and Morissa Tomei . "Brian's Song" with James Caan and Billy Dee Williams. "The Elephant Man" with Anthony Hopkins."Sybil" tv movie with Sally Fields. "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane" with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.  "With A Song In My Heart" with Susan Hayward, Thelma Ritter.  "If You Could See What I Hear" the Tom Sullivan Story.  

Answer 5

The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened

Analyze This + Analyze That

Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Out of Darkness (1994)

The Caretakers (1963)  

The Fear Inside (1992)

Lunatics: A Love Story

Housekeeping (1987)

They Might Be Giants

The Snake Pit (1948)

Swimming Upstream

Pretty Poison (1968)

The Terry Fox Story

My Life Without Me

As Good As It Gets

The Nesting (1981)

The Lost Weekend

Possessed (1947)

The Acorn People

The Ruling Class

Fear Strikes Out

A Beautiful Mind

Life as a House

Frances (1982)

Gaslight (1944)

The Sunchaser

Prozac Nation

Donnie Darko

Benny & Joon

Pontiac Moon

Shine (1996)

Lorenzo's Oil

Dying Young

The Aviator

Deepwater

Repulsion

Rain Man

Copycat

Orphans

Vertigo

I wasn't certain if you meant physical AND mental or only mental. I see that a number of people have listed physical ailments, so I added some of those.

Answer 6

Mask - Cher, Philidelphia- Tom Hanks, Dying young -??, aahhhh cant think of any more, look it up on imbd.com :)

Answer 7

I Am Sam? he is obsessive compulsive though, not panic attacks.