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Film and cinema are an important part of American culture and discourse. TIn recent years, there have been increasing discussions around the media portrayal of suicide and psychiatric illness in media and its subsequent impact on prejudice towards those with mental illness. To date, there is no published work quantifying the depiction of mental illness in film. In this work we use plot descriptions to identify movies that depict mental illness and compare their financial and critical success to all movies released during the same time period.