Title

A Dangerous Method

Year

2011

Rated

R

Released

10 Nov 2011

Runtime

99 min

Genre

Biography, Drama, Romance

Director

David Cronenberg

Writer

Christopher Hampton (screenplay), Christopher Hampton (play), John Kerr (book)

Actors

Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel

Plot

Suffering from hysteria, Sabina Spielrein is hospitalized under the care of Dr. Carl Jung who has begun using Dr. Sigmund Freud's talking cure with some of his patients. Spielrain's psychological problems are deeply rooted in her childhood and violent father. She is highly intelligent however and hopes to be a doctor, eventually becoming a psychiatrist in her own right. The married Jung and Spielrein eventually become lovers. Jung and Freud develop an almost father-son relationship with Freud seeing the young Jung as his likely successor as the standard-bearer of his beliefs. A deep rift develops between them when Jung diverges from Freud's belief that while psychoanalysis can reveal the cause of psychological problems it cannot cure the patient.

Language

English

Country

UK, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, USA

Awards

Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 18 wins & 27 nominations.

Metascore

76

imdbRating

6.5

imdbVotes

87,192

imdbID

tt1571222

Type

movie

DVD

27 Mar 2012

BoxOffice

$5,702,083

Production

Sony Pictures Classics

Website

http://www.sonyclassics.com/adangerousmethod