12 Movies You Didn’t Notice Were About Mental Illness
9. Turner And Hooch
Detective Scott Turners preoccupation with keeping everything organised, tidy and clean might be used for laughs in showing how much the drooling hulk that is Hooch turns his life upside down, but take a closer look and youll see a lot of his actions go beyond your run-of-the-mill anal-retentive. Right off the bat we see that he is overly concerned with order and cleanliness, going through his evening ritual and deep cleaning his fridge on pure impulse, and later when Hooch invades his neat and tidy haven this only multiplies Scotts neuroses tenfold. Plus theres the scene where he cant leave his veterinarian love interest's room unpainted because it irks him so much: classic case of obsessive compulsive disorder if we ever saw it. But whats really nice about Turner and Hooch is how its eponymous canine is almost therapeutic for Scott. By the middle of the film, his perfect house and orderly lifestyle are in chaos but this bothers Scott less and less as they both gradually bond with each other kind of like a therapy dog before they became a big thing.
