2023
PG-13
Sony Pictures Classics
1 h 48 m

2023
PG-13
Sony Pictures Classics
1 h 48 m

Summary On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds on the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. Freud's Last Session interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic ...

Drama

Directed By: Matt Brown

Written By: Mark St. Germain, Armand M. Nicholi Jr.

2023
PG-13
Sony Pictures Classics
1 h 48 m

2023
PG-13
Sony Pictures Classics
1 h 48 m

Freud's Last Session

Name: Freud's Last Session
Genre: Drama
Released: 2023-12-22
Duration: 1 min 48 s
Rating: 49
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode, Liv Lisa Fries, Jodi Balfour, Jeremy Northam

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews

User Score Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings

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Directed By: Matt Brown

Written By: Mark St. Germain, Armand M. Nicholi Jr.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Jan 10, 2024

Germain and Brown open up the stage play with flashbacks, which are not nearly as effective as the two guys talking. But as long as they’re talking, and they talk enough, “Freud’s Last Session” is very much worth seeing.

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Variety

Nov 1, 2023

So many movies are either mindless or completely disinterested with engaging the intellect of their audiences that Freud’s Last Session offers a welcome bit of brain stimulation — but does far less for the soul.

By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW

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TheWrap

Nov 1, 2023

Freud’s Last Session will certainly find its fans, and the actors are all superlative. But the whole affair feels a bit too dense to enthrall and the script never dives deep enough into these characters’ psyche to tell us something new or particularly unique.

By Kristen Lopez FULL REVIEW

Original-Cin

Jan 11, 2024

Performances are, predictably, strong with the 85-year-old Hopkins, bouncing about like a bantam-weight fighter, and Good, in the more restrained role, calmly watching the phenomenon as much as responding to it, eventually wearing down his opponent with compassion.

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Washington Post

Jan 2, 2024

Viewers of “Session” may find it harder to take solace from (or to find entertainment in) this stagy jar of slightly pickled discord, directed by Matt Brown, based on the 2011 play by Mark St. Germain (itself inspired by Armand Nicholi’s 2002 book “The Question of God”).

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The New York Times

Dec 22, 2023

The look of Freud’s Last Session could make one doubt the presence of a cinematographer.

By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

Wall Street Journal

Jan 5, 2024

Tiresome digressions mixed in with philosophical banalities add up to a pointless, inert drama.

By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW

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Production Company 14 Sunset, LB Entertainment, Last Session Productions, M.Y.R.A. Entertainment, Subotica, Traveling Picture Show Company (TPSC)

Release Date Dec 22, 2023

Duration 1 h 48 m

Rating PG-13

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Anthony Hopkins

Sigmund Freud

Matthew Goode

C. S. Lewis

Liv Lisa Fries

Anna Freud

Jodi Balfour

Dorothy Burlingham

Jeremy Northam

Ernest Jones

Orla Brady

Janie Moore

George Andrew-Clarke

Paddy Moore

Rhys Mannion

C. S. Lewis (Age 19)

Pádraic Delaney

Warren Lewis

Stephen Campbell Moore

J.R.R. Tolkien

Peter Warnock

Dr. Max Schur

Aidan McArdle

Dr. Bernbridge

Tarek Bishara

Jacob Freud

Nina Kolomiitseva

Sophie Freud

Gary Buckley

Albert Lewis

Emmet Kirwan

Father Brennan

David Shields

Weldon

Anna Amalie Blomeyer

Ilsa

Johannes Schreiber

Blonde Young Man

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