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If you've ever done any sort of therapy...then you may recall this obscure movie released in 1991. Drop Dead Fred is chock full of any therapease you've ever experienced, but it plays out in a child-like story that makes some of those principles a bit more palatable to those that have a hard time visualizing some of the concepts...or applying them to their lives.

I remember when I first saw the movie, I was struck by the physical comedy and amusement of Rik Mayall. He was brutal, cruel and wickedly amusing and then impossibly tender. I remember wishing I had an invisible friend as a child, and relating to the main character in ways that made me nearly uncomfortable. The lessons of the movie come together in an almost unforgivably campy ending...but its one of the corniest movies I'll ever love. People trash it, but this movie works for me in some weird way.

Let's face it, for all my supposed wit, there is a child in me that loves to laugh at the simplest things, I like her. And healing? I like even more.