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[first lines] Amelia Stuart:
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My father was diagnosed manic depressive in 1967. He'd been going around Cambridge in a fake beard calling himself Jesus John Harvard. When he got better, he started working in public television in Boston. He met my mother there. He walked up and took her picture. On their first date, he took her on a driving tour of New England and told her all about his nervous breakdowns. She didn't care. She said it was a crazy time. Half the people they knew were going bananas. So they got married and they had me... and then my sister. We were happy. I know there is more to it than that. There always is
[narrating]
My father was diagnosed manic depressive in 1967. He'd been going around Cambridge in a fake beard calling himself Jesus John Harvard. When he got better, he started working in public television in Boston. He met my mother there. He walked up and took her picture. On their first date, he took her on a driving tour of New England and told her all about his nervous breakdowns. She didn't care. She said it was a crazy time. Half the people they knew were going bananas. So they got married and they had me... and then my sister. We were happy. I know there is more to it than that. There always is
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My father was diagnosed manic depressive in 1967
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He'd been going around Cambridge in a fake beard
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calling himself Jesus John Harvard
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When he got better
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he started working in public television in Boston
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He met my mother there
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He walked up and took her picture
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On their first date
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he took her on a driving tour of New England
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and told her all about his nervous breakdowns
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She didn't care She said it was a crazy time
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Half the people they knew were going bananas
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Movie Summary
A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming task any easier.
