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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

A psychiatrist is forced to examine his own conscience in this hypnotic thriller from director Steven Soderbergh. Jude Law plays the doctor treating depressive Rooney Mara (the "Girl" in David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), whose Wall Street trader husband (Channing Tatum) has recently returned home after a spell in prison for insider dealing. The couple's reunion should be a happy event, but instead it marks the beginning of a descent into madness for Mara, partly as a result of the medication prescribed to her by Law on the advice of a fellow doctor (a stern Catherine Zeta-Jones). Mara's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic under the drug's influence, but when events take a more tragic turn, Law cannot accept that he, too, might be at fault. Soderbergh highlights the flaws of psychiatry and the fatal self-absorption of the doctor/patient relationship in an intelligently crafted story, which is briskly paced and highly suspenseful - until a crude and puerile payoff in the third act. A tease, on many levels.

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Credits

Cast

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Dr Jonathan BanksJude Law
Emily TaylorRooney Mara
Dr Victoria SiebertCatherine Zeta-Jones
Martin TaylorChanning Tatum
Deidre BanksVinessa Shaw
Carl MillbankDavid Costabile
Eileen SpicerPolly Draper
AugustinVladami Versailles
JoanMichelle Vergara Moore

Crew

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DirectorSteven Soderbergh

Details

Theatrical distributor
Entertainmentone
Released on
2013-03-08
Languages
English | French
Guidance
Violence, swearing, sex scenes, nudity.
Available on
DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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