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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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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Widescreen DVD collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adultery--Drama.
- Adultery.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Mentally ill women.
- Criminals--Drama.
- Criminals.
- Mentally ill women--Drama.
- Psychiatric hospitals--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- England--Drama.
- England.
- English literature--Film adaptations.
- English literature.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Suspense films.
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Widescreen edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Hollywood, CA : Paramount Pictures Corporation : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, [2006]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD; Region 1, NTSC; 5.1 Dolby Digital surround, 2.0 Dolby Digital surround; widescreen presentation, 2.35:1 aspect ratio, enhanced for 16x9 televisions.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby digital 2.0
- Dolby digital 5.1
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Participant:
- Natasha Richardson (Stella Raphael), Ian McKellen (Dr. Peter Cleave), Marton Csokas (Edgar Stark), Hugh Bonneville (Max Raphael), Judy Parfitt (Brenda Raphael), Sean Harris (Nick), Gus Lewis (Charlie Raphael), Wanda Ventham (Bridie Straffen), Anna Keaveney (Mrs. Bain), Joss Ackland (Jack Straffen).
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Giles Nuttgens; editors, Colin Monie and Steven Weisberg; production designer, Laurence Dorman; costume designer, Consolata Boyle; original score by Mark Mancina.
- Notes:
- Based on Asylum / by Patrick McGrath.
- Title from container.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2005.
- ISBN:
- 141571682X
- 9781415716823
- OCLC:
- 62157536
- Publisher Number:
- 097363343141
- 883929311804
- 00097363343141
- 33431 Paramount Home Entertainment
- Access Restriction:
- For private home use only.
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