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Possession (2002)
Directed by Neil LaBute
“The past will connect them. The passion will possess them.”
Drama, Mystery, Romance · 1h 42m
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.
Cast
Gwyneth Paltrow
Maud Bailey
Aaron Eckhart
Roland Mitchell
Jeremy Northam
Randolph Henry Ash
Jennifer Ehle
Christabel LaMotte
Lena Headey
Blanche Glover
Holly Aird
Ellen Ash
Toby Stephens
Fergus Wolfe
Trevor Eve
Cropper
Georgia Mackenzie
Paola
Tom Hollander
Euan
Graham Crowden
Sir George
Anna Massey
Lady Bailey
Crew
- Director
- Neil LaBute
- Screenplay
- Neil LaBute, Laura Jones
- Novel
- A.S. Byatt
- Director of Photography
- Jean-Yves Escoffier
- Original Music Composer
- Gabriel Yared
- Editor
- Claire Simpson
- Producer
- Barry Levinson, Paula Weinstein
Details
- Release date
- 2002-08-16
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Production
- Focus Features, Warner Bros. Pictures, Contagious Films, Spring Creek Pictures, Baltimore Pictures
- Budget
- $25,000,000
- Box office
- $10,113,733