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• Thriller
• Crime/detective

• 2013
• Steven Soderbergh
• 101 mins
• 15

Summary

Psychological thriller starring Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Emily Taylor begins taking a new antidepressant in order to cope with her husband's release from prison. But the results of the treatment will have far-reaching consequences not only for Emily but also for the psychiatrist who prescribed it.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Stella Papamichael

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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7.0/10

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Cast

rolenameDr Jonathan BanksJude LawEmily TaylorRooney MaraDr Victoria SiebertCatherine Zeta-JonesMartin TaylorChanning TatumDeidre BanksVinessa ShawCarl MillbankDavid CostabileEileen SpicerPolly DraperAugustinVladami VersaillesJoanMichelle Vergara Moore

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rolenameDirectorSteven Soderbergh

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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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