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Asylum, Paramount Classics and Seven Arts present a Seven Arts/Samson Films production in association with Mace Neufeld Productions ; a David Mackenzie film ; executive producers, Michael Barlow, Natasha Richardson, Chris Curling, Baron Davis, Steven Markoff, Bruce McNall, Robert Rehme, Harmon Kaslow, John Buchanan ; produced by Laurence Borg, David E. Allen, Mace Neufeld ; screenplay by Patrick Marber and Chrysanthy Balis ; directed by David Mackenzie

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MPAA rating: Rated R for strong sexuality, some violence, and brief language

Asylum

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Paramount Classics and Seven Arts present a Seven Arts/Samson Films production in association with Mace Neufeld Productions ; a David Mackenzie film ; executive producers, Michael Barlow, Natasha Richardson, Chris Curling, Baron Davis, Steven Markoff, Bruce McNall, Robert Rehme, Harmon Kaslow, John Buchanan ; produced by Laurence Borg, David E. Allen, Mace Neufeld ; screenplay by Patrick Marber and Chrysanthy Balis ; directed by David Mackenzie

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Asylum takes place in England, during the high-Freudian days of the 1950s, when psychiatry had started to flex its muscles. Hugh Bonneville is a professional success, but his wife Stella has already exhausted the era's possibilities--she adores her 10-year-old son, but her marriage has long since faded into endless days, gray evenings sipping scotch by the fire, and badly concealed contempt. Hugh has been hired by a sprawling high-security psychiatric hospital as grim as a tomb. Then Stella meets the patient assigned to renovate the greenhouse, Edgar Stark, a sculptor institutionalized for murdering his wife in a jealous pique. Their gazes lock, they immerse themselves in a passionate clandestine affair and inevitably, catastrophe follows

Mrs. Raphael -- The wives -- Falling -- Dancing -- Can you keep a secret? -- The greenhouse -- What do you think of Mrs. Raphael? -- Interrupted -- Have you seen a ghost? -- How long? -- Shopping -- How's Edgar? -- New life -- Seen it before -- Caught -- Home again -- Calling -- Committed -- Making progress -- Dr. Cleave -- Waiting at the dance -- Goodbye

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