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A Dangerous Method

Release Date: Nov 23, 2011
Rated: Sexual content and brief language
Runtime: 1 hr. 39 min.
Genres: Drama
Director:David Cronenberg
Cast:Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel, Sarah Gadon. Full cast + crew

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Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender star in director David Cronenberg's adaptation of Christopher Hampton's play detailing the deteriorating relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. The year is 1904. Carl Jung (Fassbender), a disciple of Sigmund Freud (Mortensen), is using Freudian techniques to treat Russian-Jewish psychiatric patient Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) at Burghölzli Mental Hospital. But the deeper Jung's relationship with Spielrein grows, the further the burgeoning...more

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A Dangerous Fiction by One-in-Many-in-One
Ranks up there with "Holy Smoke" as one of the most unwatchable films,says my grown son. The dialog was bad, the scene selection was bad, the editing was as...

A Dangerous Method by subabe
For all of the film's Merchant Ivory production values and imaginative cinematography, the end result was as deeply felt and emotionally wrenching as watching...