When Adam meets Maya, a fiercely intelligent girl, he desperately wants to be the normal, great guy that she thinks he is.
An experimental drug promises to help him hide his illness from the world. His hallucinations include a cast of characters that range from the good (beautiful Rebecca) to the bad (angry Mob Boss) to the just plain weird (polite naked guy). Adam is a pretty regular teen-he's just navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia. When you can't trust your mind, trust your heart. In the UK, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 or email You can contact the mental health charity Mind by calling 03 or visiting .Soon to be a major motion picture starring Charlie Plummer, AnnaSophia Robb, and Taylor Russell! Fans of More Happy Than Not, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and It's Kind of a Funny Story will cheer for Adam in this uplifting and surprisingly funny story of a boy living with schizophrenia. Words on Bathroom Walls is in select cinemas from 6 November. It makes the film look shallow, which is a shame, because serious thought has gone into conveying how terrifying it must be for people like Adam living with the condition. Here, the script disappointingly goes into full-on high-school movie mode, giving us the usual teenage milestones – first kiss, prom night, parent troubles – all with a contrived schizophrenia spin. When he is transferred to a new school, Adam keeps his schizophrenia a secret, even from the girl he fancies, Maya (Taylor Russell).
Friends won’t have anything to do with him. At home, Adam’s stepdad Paul (Walton Goggins) hides the kitchen knives and tiptoes around. Some might find these characters quirky or obvious, but the incessant noise in his head is effectively done. When he is very unwell, he hallucinates a scary horror-movie voice: a sinister growl that tells him to do things that will hurt him and endanger others. There’s incense-wafting hippy chick Rebecca (AnnaSophia Robb), horny teenager Joaquin (Devon Bostick) and the Bodyguard (Lobo Sebastian), a baseball-bat-wielding thug who shows up if Adam is feeling emotionally vulnerable. For months Adam has been hearing voices, represented on screen as a trio of characters. Charlie Plummer gives a nicely balanced performance as Adam, a cooking-obsessed kid in his senior year at high school who is diagnosed with schizophrenia after a psychotic episode in chemistry class.
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