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Scottish film-maker David Mackenzie follows up Young Adam with another hard-boiled drama set in the 1950s, which once again boasts a fair quota of illicit sex and untimely death. The story unfolds largely in an old Gothic mental institution, where the staff are as crazy and dangerous as the patients — only more intelligent. Psychiatrist Hugh Bonneville arrives to take up a post as deputy superintendent, along with his wife Natasha Richardson, young son and ambitions of occupying the top job. He is boring. She is bored. Before long, Richardson finds an outlet for her repressed desires in the arms of Marton Csokas, an artist who murdered his unfaithful spouse and is now the star patient of Bonneville's devious rival Ian McKellen. Powerful performances and Mackenzie's gritty style are just about enough to offset the melodramatic excesses of the plot. BP
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Running time
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95min
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Country of origin
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US / Ire
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Genre
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Psychological Romantic Drama
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Patrick Marber, from the novel by Patrick McGrath
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Theatrical distributor
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Momentum Pictures
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UK cinema certificate
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15
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UK cinema release date
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September 2005
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