Great Pretender

For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness - how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people - sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society - went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd 'proven' themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever.

"The Great Pretender" is the U.S. reworking of "The Freddie Mercury Album", which was a posthumous compilation of previously released songs, about two-thirds of which were in the form of new remixes. Although the concept is the same, The Great Pretender replaces about half of the tracks with versions that were not on "The Freddie Mercury Album", resulting in all but one track being new remixes of the old material.

Documentary looking at the relationships and solo career of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.