Maniac

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Set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time, Maniac tells the stories of Annie Landsberg and Owen Milgrim, two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reasons. Annie's disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia. Neither of their lives have turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment—a sequence of pills its inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray, claims can repair anything about the mind, be it mental illness or heartbreak—draws them and ten other strangers to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.

Creators

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Patrick Somerville

creator

Cary Joji Fukunaga

executive producer

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Patrick Somerville

executive producer

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Doug Wald

executive producer

Emma Stone

executive producer

Jonah Hill

executive producer

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Michael Sugar

executive producer

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Pal Kristiansen

executive producer

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Anne Kolbjørnsen

executive producer

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Espen Huseby

executive producer

Cast

Sonoya Mizuno actor Emma Stone actor Jonah Hill actor Justin Theroux actor Sally Field actor Gabriel Byrne actor