Jimmy P. (2013) on Netflix
NR20131h 57mBiographyDramaThriller
Blackfoot veteran Jimmy Picard returns from the war in France with symptoms no doctor can explain. At a veterans' hospital in Topeka, Kansas, Georges Devereux takes up his case.
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- Netflix2.8/5
- IMDb6.1/103,260 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes52%
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Plot summary
Jimmy Picard, a Blackfoot who served in France during the Second World War, comes home to Montana with symptoms no doctor can explain. He is admitted to a veterans' hospital in Topeka, Kansas, in the early days of psychoanalysis in America, where Karl Menninger is on the staff. The doctors there suspect schizophrenia. Georges Devereux, a French physician of Hungarian-Jewish background, is brought in as a specialist in ethnology and psychoanalysis and starts a conversation with the veteran. Scenes return to Jimmy's life on the reservation and in Montana.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jimmy P. (2013)
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- The film takes place mostly at a veterans' hospital in Topeka, Kansas, where Karl Menninger was one of the staff who treated men after World War II.
