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Side Effects (2013 film)

Side Effects
SideEffects2013Poster.jpg
Promotional poster
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Produced by
Written by Scott Z. Burns
Starring
Music by Thomas Newman
Cinematography Steven Soderbergh
(as Peter Andrews)
Edited by Steven Soderbergh
(as Mary Ann Bernard)
Production
company
Endgame Entertainment
Distributed by Open Road Films
Release date
  • February 8, 2013 (2013-02-08) (United States)
Running time
106 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $30 million
Box office $66.7 million
Side Effects (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Studio album by Thomas Newman
Released March 3, 2013
Genre Soundtrack
Length 77:55
Label Varese Sarabande 302 067 182 2
Producer Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman chronology
Skyfall
(2012)
Side Effects
(2013)
Saving Mr. Banks
(2013)

Side Effects is a 2013 American psychological thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Z. Burns. It stars Jude Law as a psychiatrist whose patient Emily (Rooney Mara) kills her husband (Channing Tatum) after being prescribed a new antidepressant drug. Catherine Zeta-Jones co-stars as Emily's previous psychiatrist. Side Effects was released in the United States on February 8, 2013 by Open Road Films.

After her husband Martin completes a four-year prison sentence for insider trading, Emily Taylor drives into a wall in an apparent suicide attempt. Jonathan Banks, assigned her psychiatrist, prescribes a series of antidepressants, but none work. Jonathan contacts Emily's previous psychiatrist, Victoria Siebert, who suggests an experimental new drug, Ablixa. The drug returns Emily to mental wellbeing, but gives her sleepwalking episodes as a side effect.

One night, Emily stabs Martin to death while sleepwalking. Jonathan fights for Emily's acquittal in court. She pleads insanity and is declared not guilty on the condition that she stays in a psychiatric hospital until cleared by Jonathan. The publicity destroys Jonathan's reputation, and his colleagues assume negligence on his part.

Jonathan discovers evidence that Emily is lying; she was not depressed and faked her suicide attempts. He also discovers someone may have profited from Ablixa's fall in stock value. He interviews Emily after administering what he claims is a truth serum that will make her drowsy. Though the serum is actually a placebo, she feigns drowsiness, confirming Jonathan's suspicion that she is deceiving him. When he confronts Victoria with his findings, she mails photographs to his wife Deirdre implying he had an affair with Emily. Deirdre and her son leave him.


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