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Daytime Tiger

Film (Trailer and Excerpts) – 2011

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Lithium. That's what they use in batteries.
– Michael Morrissey
...one of the most honest, engaging, and provocative portraits of an extreme personality you will ever see.
– Reviewer Graeme Tuckett in The Dominion Post, 30 July 2011
...I wasn't looking for a perfect person, but somebody reasonable you can live with, you know...you can get along with, you can grow old with.
– Michael Morrissey's wife Ann, on her hopes for her marriage
[The film] was also a catalyst for change — seeing himself raving on screen was enough to convince [Michael] Morrissey he needed that medication. For the rest of us, Daytime Tiger holds up a very sobering mirror to the destructiveness of a disease to which most of us have some connection, while at the same time providing the pleasure of being witness to a bravura documentary.
– Writer Helen Martin on Daytime Tiger, in 2015 book Directory of World Cinema - Australia and New Zealand
[Michael Morrissey] wanted me to make the film, and it was obvious from the start he intended to be ruthlessly honest...
– Director Costa Botes in a 2011 interview with Magneto
There are shots in Daytime Tiger that are ridiculously intimate. I am almost nestled in the subject's armpits at times. Handheld, we can all move in a strange dance together.
– Director Costa Botes, in a 2011 interview with Magneto