The Coddling of the American Mind

2024 • 93 minutes

About this movie

Based on The New York Times bestselling book-Lucy just left a locked psych ward. Kimi is a Ugandan immigrant. Both teenagers begin new lives as they enter college. They're full of promise, but quickly succumb to paranoia and misery. Kimi is on the brink of homelessness and Lucy is convinced people want to murder her simply because she's autistic.The women are part of a global mental-health mystery that threatens an entire generation. Beginning in 2012, anxiety, depression, and suicide shot up among young people, and nobody knew why. Then answers emerged from an unexpected source-a man named Greg and his own brush with suicide.

Ratings and reviews

Important viewing! Each subject illustrates a point about today's culture that's hardly ever covered in entertainment. The rise in fragility is very real. I did wish it was longer to get deeper into details -- as there are many elements of society, history, and trends that can be tied in -- but just opening the convo is a good primer.

The movie is completely different from the book. Both are very well done and tell the same story in completely different ways.

Boy does this make a lot of sense out of what has seemed so crazy for so long now.