Asylum

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Set in late-1950s England, David Mackenzie's Asylum is a Gothic romance filled with erotic obsession, deception, and murder. Natasha Richardson gives a bravura performance as Stella Raphael, an unhappy woman who is forced to move with her son to rural Yorkshire when her husband Max earns a post as deputy superintendent of a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane. Among the patients there is Edgar Stark, a brooding sculptor who has been imprisoned for the brutal murder of his wife. When Stark gets a job working in the Raphaels' garden and conservatory, the attraction grows between Stella and him as Stark's doctor, Peter Cleave (Ian McKellen), Max's rival, watches closely, harbouring his own ulterior motives. When Edgar escapes, Stella must decide whether to remain in her sedate life in Yorkshire or go after the dangerous man she has fallen in love with. Based on Patrick McGrath's 1997 novel.

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Interviews with members of the cast; Original trailer.

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