When the film received a distributor and release date the following year, I meant to get around to watching the movie.
In my Movie Blogger’s Christmas Wish List that year, I wished the film would receive a distributor, a studio that would release the movie. I first started talking about this film in 2019, when I mentioned it in my Book Adaptation Tag post. Words on Bathroom Walls is about a high school senior with Schizophrenia.
Charlie was born in 1999, which means by the time of the film’s release in 2020, he was 21 years old. As soon as I read the blogathon rules, I immediately thought of Charlie Plummer’s portrayal of Adam in Words on Bathroom Walls. For this blogathon, participants are asked to pick a movie or show featuring young adults, older teenagers, or older adults who have portrayed teenagers. 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 .Rebecca from Taking Up Room has great blogathon ideas, hence why these events are so fun to participate in! The latest event, The Fake Teenager Festivus Blogathon, is no exception. 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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