Asylum

Name: Asylum
Genre: Thriller, Romance
Released: August 12, 2005
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 51
Cast: Ian McKellen, Marton Csokas, Natasha Richardson, Sean Harris

2005

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Paramount Classics | Release Date: August 12, 2005 | R

Starring: Ian McKellen, Marton Csokas, Natasha Richardson, Sean Harris

Summary: Set in 1950's England, this tale of erotic obsession tells the story of Stella Raphael (Richardson), a restless, beautiful woman who desperately desires to find in romantic love the one thing that will change everything. (Paramount Classics)

Director: David Mackenzie

Genre(s): Thriller, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 99 min

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Paula Nechak

A film that takes you by surprise, refusing to relinquish its grim, fascinating hold. Better yet, it has crept up on us without much advance promotional fanfare. The less known about its twists, the better. Read full review

David Sterritt

Patrick McGrath's novel provides a solid and suspenseful story, even if it loses much of its bite in Mackenzie's hands. Read full review

Jack Mathews

Asylum is as dark as Dracula's mood on a moonless night, and people suffering from depression should think twice before opening the coffin. This thing would put off Mary Poppins. Read full review

Steven Rea

Alternately tedious, cliched and unintentionally funny. Read full review

Ella Taylor

I hope to God that Patrick McGrath's novel Asylum, about a bunch of repressed Brits manipulating the stuffing out of one another in a 1950s psychiatric hospital, is better than the shallowly competent exercise in nastiness that British director David Mackenzie and screenwriter Patrick Marber have made of it. Read full review

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

The best you can say of Asylum is that it plays like a topless "Twilight Zone." Read full review

Ann Hornaday

Shouldn't fool viewers into thinking it's anything but a pseudo-artsy piece of tripe. Read full review

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