Side Effects (2013)
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Duration: 106 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Jude Law, Rooney Mara and Catherine Zeta-Jones
IMDb score:
7,0 (205.712)
Releasedate: 7 February 2013
Side Effects plot
"One pill can change your life."
dr. Jonathan Banks is an ambitious young psychiatrist looking to prove himself. When his new, severely depressed patient Emily does not respond to common medications, he decides to prescribe a new drug called Ablixa as a last resort. This works; Emily is slowly getting better. But one day when Emily's husband comes home, she doesn't answer when he greets her. He finds her looking rather absent-minded.
Actors and actresses
Emily Taylor
Jonathan Banks
Dr. Victoria Siebert
Martin Taylor
Dierdre Banks
Mrs. Taylor
Eileen Spicer
Carl
Kayla
NYPD Detective
Reviews & comments
PCTERN
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- 258 messages
- 204 votes
The beginning of this movie was hard, I got into it hard. Halfway through, the film gets going better as the 'conspiracy' becomes clearer. From that moment on, your attention is held, which is difficult in the first half hour.
The story is original in plot/idea but quite far-fetched and as a film here and there not cleverly put together. The theme could have been developed much better in a first-class thriller, but it gets stuck in too many vagueness or casualness, superficiality and too fast and also vague plot changes that even made me lose the thread towards the end.
I also found the ending to be a bit too easy.
Classy actors Jude Law, Rooney Mara and Catherina Zeta Jones do their best but are too limited by the mediocre script. Movie reminds me of a poorly filmed book.
Movie could have been more. But was worth watching.
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IH88
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- 9780 messages
- 3194 votes
“Depression is an inability to construct a future.”
Interesting film by Soderbergh. Side Effects is based on the conflicts between the characters, only to throw in some twists afterwards. Soderbergh misleads the viewer a number of times, but does so without losing his grip on the plot and the characters. You see them at their worst, and each character ends up trying to outsmart the other. Very well played by Law, Mara and Zeta-Jones. As we are used to from Soderbergh, Side Effects visually looks beautiful again, and the smooth direction ensures that the film also looks good.
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