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Side Effects (2013)

Side Effects poster
Directed by
Steven Soderbergh
Genre
drama film, crime film, LGBTQ-related film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 46m
Rated
R
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 3,337 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman starts taking experimental psychiatric drugs after her husband gets out of prison. The treatment leads to unexpected and dangerous consequences.

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What happens

Side Effects is a 2013 American crime thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Z. Burns. It stars Rooney Mara as a woman who is prescribed experimental drugs by psychiatrists (Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones) after her husband (Channing Tatum) is released from prison. Side Effects was released in the United States on February 8, 2013, by Open Road Films. It received positive reviews and grossed $66 million worldwide. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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