Asylum

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Call Number: DVD Drama Asylum
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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Based on the novel by Patrick McGrath.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2005.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Contents: Asylum.

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