Date: Thursday, March 16, 2017
Time: 7:00 – 9:30 PM
Place: Wilson 306, Brown University
Open to: Movie is rated R (17+ years unless accompanied by an adult)
Price: Free
Space available: 128
Sponsored by the Brown University Film Forum.
Winner of the 2014 screenwriting award at the Sundance Film Festival, The Skeleton Twins follows twins Milo (Bill Hader) and Maggie (Kristen Wiig) as they reunite after many years of estrangement, having both attempted suicide on the same day. The situation forces them to confront how their lives became so broken. For Maggie, it means examining why she’s so unhappy in a marriage to a loving husband. For Milo, it means meeting with his first love to see if their romance can reignite. Eventually, they learn that living truthfully and accepting each other is the only way to move forward. Trailer.
Speakers from Brown’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) will lead a discussion after the film and there will be free pizza!
Dr. Lisa Frappier joined the staff of CAPS in 2008 as a part time psychiatrist. She attended Brown as an undergraduate, concentrating in Psychology and Semiotics (now MCM). She attended medical school at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Maine, and completed her Residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, in Piscataway, NJ. Prior to coming to Brown, Dr. Frappier worked for 15 years in community mental health at The Providence Center in Providence, RI.
Dr. Ellen Darling joined CAPS in 2016 and holds an undergraduate degree from Brown in Theatre Arts and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Clark University. She has worked in a range of clinical settings including partial hospital programs, university counseling centers, and on substance abuse intervention teams; she has training in both evidence-based treatments for mood and anxiety disorders and also psychodynamic and relationally oriented approaches. Dr. Darling approaches clinical work through a multicultural frame considering the impact of students’ often intersecting identities such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and generation in this country. She is also actively engaged in treatment development research in the areas of perinatal mental health and intimate relationships.