When patients' rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients in hospitals, she is meeting a woman who will make it her mission to transform Colette's workaholic life.
Director: Bille August
Cast:Hilary Swank , Helena Bonham Carter , Johan Heldenbergh , Cynthia Hoppenfeld , Jeffrey Tambor , Edward Bennett , Vincent Riotta , Doreen Mantle , Florence Bell , Nathan Osgood , Simon Chandler , Jonathan Kerrigan , Douglas Reith , Michael Culkin , Tim Ahern , Anneika Rose , Richard Riddell , Angelique Fernandez