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Brain on Fire
Brain on Fire

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Movie | Ireland | 02/22/2017 | Netflix | Biography | Journalists
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Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into insanity.
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308

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