Hitchcock (film)
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| Directed by | Sacha Gervasi |
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Ivan Reitman Tom Pollock Joe Medjuck Tom Thayer Alan Barnette |
| Screenplay by | John J. McLaughlin |
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Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello |
| Starring |
Anthony Hopkins Helen Mirren Scarlett Johansson Toni Collette Danny Huston Jessica Biel James D'Arcy Michael Wincott |
| Music by | Danny Elfman |
| Cinematography | Jeff Cronenweth |
| Edited by | Pamela Martin |
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| Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $23.6 million |
Hitchcock is a 2012 American biographical drama film directed by Sacha Gervasi, based on Stephen Rebello's non-fiction book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. The film was released in selected cities on November 23, 2012, with a worldwide release on December 14, 2012.
Hitchcock centers on the relationship between film director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the making of Psycho, a controversial horror film that became one of the most acclaimed and influential works in the filmmaker's career.
In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock opens his latest film, North by Northwest, to considerable success, but is troubled by a reporter's insinuation that he should retire. Seeking to reclaim the artistic daring of his youth, Hitchcock turns down film proposals, such as adapting Casino Royale in favor of a horror novel called Psycho by Robert Bloch, based on the real-life crimes of murderer Ed Gein. Gein appears in sequences throughout the film, in which he seems to prompt Hitchcock's imagination regarding the Psycho story, or act as some function of Hitchcock's subconscious mind (for instance, drawing Hitchcock's attention to sand on his bathroom floor, the quantity of which reveals how much time his wife Alma has been spending at the beachhouse with Whitfield Cook).
Hitchcock's wife and artistic collaborator, Alma, is no more enthusiastic about the idea than his colleagues, especially since she is being lobbied by their writer friend, Whitfield Cook, to look at his own screenplay. However, she warms to Hitchcock's proposal, suggesting the innovative plot turn of killing the female lead early in the film. The studio heads at Paramount prove more difficult to persuade, forcing Hitchcock to finance the film personally and use his Alfred Hitchcock Presents television crew (over at competitor Revue/Universal) to produce the film. (As this film completed his contract with Paramount, all subsequent films were made at Universal.)
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