Its hungry and homeless wanderers often are mentally ill people who have been prematurely released from state -
run mental institutions — not dangerous enough to be locked away, but not well enough to live without the emotional and physical support which few people seem capable of offering them.
Not exact matches
Most of these children were sent to state -
run orphanages and religious
institutions and faced untold physical,
mental and sexual abuse and neglect.
My Name Is Emily (Unrated) Road drama about an orphan (Evanna Lynch) who, on her 16th birthday,
runs away from her foster home with an ardent admirer (George Webster) to search for her long - lost father (Declan Conlon) locked - up in a
mental institution on the other side of Ireland.
There are few sights in a movie more poignant than inmates in an
institution — a prison, or a
mental hospital — mooching around in tracksuits, because you know they're not going to be
running anywhere anytime soon.
Annie (Currie, lead singer of (appropriately) The Runaways) often
runs away from home to her policeman father's consternation; he wants to put her into a
mental institution.