Side Effects
After four years being in jail for insider trading, a man comes back home incarcerated, his wife therefore sinks into a deep depression. And her world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
21 February 1961, Abbeyville, South Carolina, USA
24 March 1961, Tarrytown, New York, USA
1 June 1977, Saint Charles, Missouri, USA
30 January 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
3 August 1983, New York City, New York, USA
6 July 1971, USA
19 July 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA
May 10, 2016
The script by Scott Z. Burns is deliciously sinuous.
June 13, 2013
Once Side Effects gets into its crime story, medication is swept aside by movie nonsense. The storyline goes into tangles that have to be dealt with very rapidly if the audience is not to start laughing.
February 08, 2013
Steven Soderbergh is one of our best and most versatile directors.
April 17, 2016
It has "minor classic" written all over it.
July 14, 2016
A trimly paced thriller that plays with audience expectations and keeps viewers off-balance.
January 03, 2014
It's difficult to escape the impression that the movie is impressed only with its cleverness.
March 05, 2013
As a thriller in the Hitchcock mould, 'Side Effects' is great fun: its characters are well acted without being entirely likeable, which makes their jeopardy all the more enjoyable while putting us at a clinical remove.
June 21, 2016
It is, when the end credits roll, a sold, sturdy little mystery - sleek, and more than a little junk-foody.
April 23, 2015
A chilling, disturbing portrait of the dangers of the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the evil of deceit.
February 11, 2013
A crafty teaser that presents itself as one kind of film before gradually evolving into another kind altogether. I, for one, enjoyed both enormously.
April 28, 2015
Where's Adrian Lyne when you need him?
March 01, 2013
Soderbergh is less interested in making statements than he is in skillfully fulfilling genre expectations.
