June 8, 2008
A very underated film I feel, a very twisted love story of obsession and jealousy.
Hugh Bonneville, Ian McKellen, Natasha Richardson
A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
DVD Release Date: July 6, 2004
Stats: 240 reviews
Flixster Reviews (240)
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April 25, 2007I have mixed feelings. This movie couldn't lift itself out of mediocrity. Was it the lack of intensifyin soundtrack? Was this intended? Or the muted character development for the leads? It's shot so well with so many excellent scenes but led me to think that a different tone of d...( read more)
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July 10, 2009Richardson's husband no longer lusts after her so she shags a mental patient, then they run away, then she goes mad (which makes no sense), then there was some other stuff and then she gets put in the asylum where McKellen falls in love with her and then she kills herself. Eviden...( read more)
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September 12, 2008Another damn disregarded director,brilliant irony and obsession.According to the laws of libido,ignorance of the sex object is transformed into hidden passion.Richardson is magnificent and another stinging performance by McKellen.Mckenzie is aggressive to the compassion of the h...( read more)
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April 7, 2009i am into my psychological thrillers and this is another one! i story of passion!
this film showed how that boredom and niglect can lead a person to insanity!
i thought that this was a well done film, and the lack of music helped the veiwer stay fouced to the story!
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December 25, 2008This movie is a kind of another "fatal attraction" except it takes place in england in the 50's and with a loony bin thrown in for good measure. Not a bad move, a little slow but for a woman in her 40's Natasha Richardson's beauty is memorizing and reason enough to watch the mov...( read more)
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December 24, 2008early McKellen work, about experimental safe communities for schizophrenics
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December 4, 2008just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a pretty good movie 2 watch...its got a good cast of actors/actressess throguhout this movie...i think that sir ian mckellan plays a good part throughout this movie,,,i think that the director of this Action & Adventure, My...( read more)
Critic Reviews
August 29, 2005
David Edelstein, Slate
August 19, 2005
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
A competent exercise in atmospheric bosom-heaving, if not plausible storytelling. full review
August 19, 2005
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
The morbid interiority of McGrath's novel has been turned into distressed gloss, and while it's awfully nice to look at, it never once comes close to the dangerous emotions of the real thing. full review
August 18, 2005
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
An overwrought Gothic melodrama that has a nice first act before it descends into shameless absurdity. full review
August 18, 2005
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Mad passion and marital ennui collide with calamitous results in Asylum. full review
August 15, 2005
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
The premise of the tale is thus grounded in an experience of some grit, yet the result, onscreen, is a loose compound of the predictable and the implausible. full review
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