Multiple Chemical Sensitivity - in Media

In Media

  • The 1995 film Safe, starring Julianne Moore and directed by Todd Haynes, is about a woman who develops MCS. It was voted the best film of the 1990s in the 1999 Village Voice Film Poll.
  • The 2008 work Tilt, by Italian writer Caterina Serra, reports and narrates the lives of many patients affected by MCS.
  • Anne Lipscomb's 2009 memoir Poisoned by Pollution: An Unexpected Spiritual Journey details the author's struggles with MCS.
  • In a 2009 episode of the TV series Bones, MCS patients are scammed and murdered.
  • John Stossel's 1994 TV special The Blame Game, which chronicles cultural victimization and lack of responsibility in American society, includes a group of four employees of Tompkins County, New York's Social Services Department who claimed to have been rendered disabled by MCS caused by the chemicals in their building.
  • In the TV series Northern Exposure, the character Mike Monroe is portrayed as suffering from MCS.

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