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Equus

1977 · 137 min

A slow, intense psychological unravelling that feels like a therapy session turned into a haunting, uncomfortable ritual.

Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Joan Plowright

Tagline: I am yours and you are mine.
Overview: A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

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Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Joan Plowright

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
faith
identity
sexuality
madness
Places: hospital
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex strong

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Horror	4
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	2
Tension	7
Darkness	8
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	9

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Genres: drama, mystery, thriller
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Written by: Peter Shaffer
Starring: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews, Colin Blakely, Eileen Atkins, Jenny Agutter, Kate Reid
Music: Richard Rodney Bennett
Cinematography: Oswald Morris
Runtime: 137 min
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Languages: English

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