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Halle Berry in "Frankie and Alice" Photo Credit: Sergei Bachlakov

“I want to go home,” Kareem* said wearily over the phone from a mental institution about 15 years ago.

That conversation from my high school days in Oakland rushed back to my mind during a scene from Halle Berry’s film “Frankie and Alice.”Berry plays Frankie Murdoch, a black exotic dancer in Los Angeles suffering from dissociative personality disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder) the 1970s.

Frankie’s mind retreats to other personalities when buried memories from her youth in Georgia resurrect. The film is based on a true story.

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I’m still surprised Berry wasn’t nominated for an Oscar because she gives one of her best performances in this movie. Berry convincingly switches from Frankie, to a helpless 8 –year- old child, and then to a white, racist, Southern Belle named Alice.

Frankie’s therapist Dr. Oz (not to be confus