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Asylum (2005)
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Reviews Counted:84
Fresh:31
Rotten:53
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: This catastrophic adaptation of Patrick McGrath's novel gets sillier and more implausible as it goes along.
Theatrical Release:Aug 12, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $295,287
Synopsis: Set in 1950s England, ASYLUM, a tale of erotic obsession, tells the story of Stella Raphael (Natasha Richardson), a restless, beautiful woman who desperately desires to find in romantic love the... [More]
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Ian McKellen, Marton Csokas, Hugh Bonneville
Director: David Mackenzie
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09/22/07
offers a bleak vision of the Fifties, where an outbreak of passion or an artistic impulse would be quickly subjected, like any other madness, to containment.
07/02/07
A little like Jack the Ripper in outer space.
03/26/07
Despite a superb cast, artful set design and seductive cinematography, Asylum remains a lovingly lensed missed opportunity.
02/22/07
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05/12/06
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02/09/06
Asylum had promise. But it's bad enough to make one wonder just who had the loose screws -- the characters, or the people who filmed them?
09/16/05
Patrick McGrath's screenplay, based on his novel, has moments big and small, delivered in appropriate dollops of awfulness.
09/16/05
Top CriticIt's a movie you fall for or you don't, and like Stella, I am not ashamed I did.
09/16/05
Top CriticThere is nothing to Stella's character -- or any of these characters, for that matter -- that you can relate to.
09/15/05
So obsessed with rendering Patrick McGrath's exquisitely twisted Gothic novel as a refined affair that it forgets less ambitious pursuits, like sussing out a way to keep us awake.
09/15/05
Based on Pat McCabe's moody novel, Asylum has an over-the-top feverishness that suits its premise.
09/15/05
Once characters' actions lose credibility, it's hard to empathize with them, no matter how well the roles are played.
09/15/05
Top Critic...oh, look at all the crazy people.
09/15/05
Marton Csokas ... comes across as a hybrid of Russell Crowe and Clive Owen in full-on brooding mode and has a genuine chemistry with Richardson that goes some way to explaining why she stays with him as a long as she does.
09/10/05
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09/09/05
The film wryly wonders whether the lunatics have taken over not just the asylum but the entire world as well.
09/04/05
A troubling psychological drama about illicit passion leading to tragedy.
09/03/05
It's a lost cause.
09/03/05
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