Split (2016 American film)
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| Directed by | M. Night Shyamalan |
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| Written by | M. Night Shyamalan |
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| Music by | West Dylan Thordson |
| Cinematography | Mike Gioulakis |
| Edited by | Luke Franco Ciarrocchi |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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117 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $9 million |
| Box office | $197.1 million |
Split is a 2016 American psychological thriller-horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The film stars James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy and Betty Buckley and follows a man with 23 different personalities who kidnaps three girls.
Principal photography began on November 11, 2015, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The film premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 26, 2016, and was released in the United States on January 20, 2017, by Universal Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews and was a massive financial success, grossing $197 million worldwide on a budget of $9 million.
Three teenagers, Claire (Haley Lu Richardson), Marcia (Jessica Sula) and outsider Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy), are kidnapped and held captive by "Dennis", one of 23 personalities present in the mind of Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), a victim of childhood abuse diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder.
Kevin's psychiatrist, Dr. Karen Fletcher (Betty Buckley), who cites studies in which alternate personality states exhibit distinct physiological and psychological profiles, is concerned to find an e-mail from Kevin's protective personality, "Barry", asking for a meeting. Over the years, Kevin has been treated, he appears to be stable: all of his personalities sit in chairs in a room, waiting for their turn "in the light", controlling the body, while "Barry" controls who gets to go in the light. Two personalities, "Dennis" and "Patricia", are kept out of the light. In Dennis's case, this is because he likes to watch young girls dance naked, and he has both violent tendencies and obsessive–compulsive disorder. Dr. Fletcher, through her studies, has reached a conclusion that people like Kevin can overcome their disabilities by moving to different personalities. Later, in an attempt to explain his new personality, Kevin reminds her about a blind girl with split dissociative identity disorder who could see when she went into another personality. She attends a medical conference online and tries to make her point; this could be a solution to all the disabilities.
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