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Asylum
Directed by
David Mackenzie
R
2005
1h 39m
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6.1
36%
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A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty of the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
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Cast of Asylum
Natasha Richardson
Stella Raphael
Hugh Bonneville
Max Raphael
Ian McKellen
Dr. Peter Cleave
Joss Ackland
Jack Straffen
Gus Lewis
Charlie Raphael
Wanda Ventham
Bridie Straffen
Maria Aitken
Claudia Greene
Hazel Douglas
Lilly
Marton Csokas
Edgar Stark
Judy Parfitt
Brenda Raphael
Sean Harris
Nick
David Mackenzie
Director
Patrick Marber
Writer
Patrick McGrath
Writer
Chrysanthy Balis
Writer
Laurie Borg
Producer
Mace Neufeld
Producer
Asylum Ratings & Reviews
Detroit News
Tom Long
Patrick McGrath's screenplay, based on his novel, has moments big and small, delivered in appropriate dollops of awfulness.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
It's a movie you fall for or you don't, and like Stella, I am not ashamed I did.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
Once characters' actions lose credibility, it's hard to empathize with them, no matter how well the roles are played.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
The film wryly wonders whether the lunatics have taken over not just the asylum but the entire world as well.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
In Asylum, the first time Richardson and Csokas give into their longings I almost wanted to laugh, the whole scenario so insipidly silly I almost couldn't believe Mackenzie filmed it.
Slate
David Edelstein
Asylum is all very formal, detached, and, regrettably, sane.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
There's nothing remotely seething -- or sympathetic or provocative -- about this overstuffed movie, which bears the unmistakable signs of a film too in love with its own fetishistic production values.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A competent exercise in atmospheric bosom-heaving, if not plausible storytelling.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
Richardson commands every scene she's in.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The morbid interiority of McGrath's novel has been turned into distressed gloss, and while it's awfully nice to look at, it never once comes close to the dangerous emotions of the real thing.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Richardson is the reason to see Asylum. A lot of what happens doesn't really make sense, yet her intensity hooks us.
Dallas Morning News
Philip Wuntch
Asylum is a semi-watchable, lurid melodrama. But it could have been a dynamic, probing psycho-drama.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
I know it's all about erotic obsession, not logic. Still, it's just so darn annoying to watch this attractive, seemingly smart woman throw her life away for some (admittedly rather hot) sex in the greenhouse.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
The makers of Asylum pretend they're making an art movie, and although the film has the trappings, the story is mostly Hollywood.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
An overwrought Gothic melodrama that has a nice first act before it descends into shameless absurdity.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Mad passion and marital ennui collide with calamitous results in Asylum.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Even at its most melodramatic, Asylum plays as if someone had slipped a pair of restraining devices on the material and then yelled 'action.'
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The premise of the tale is thus grounded in an experience of some grit, yet the result, onscreen, is a loose compound of the predictable and the implausible.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A psychological thriller requiring substantial suspension of disbelief.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Mackenzie takes too many such shortcuts in a complex psychological story.
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