Additional information for Side Effects, which has a domestic theatrical release set for February 8, 2013. The film is being distributed by Open Road Films and has not yet been rated. Side Effects has a total running time of 106 minutes.
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14A
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15A
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15
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MA15+
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6
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M/16
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III
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M18
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15
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15
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14
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14
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106min
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Side Effects
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Side Effects - Tödliche Nebenwirkungen
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Terapia de Risco
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Terapia de riesgo
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The Bitter Pill
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Tofaot levai
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February 08, 2013
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February 08, 2013
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February 12, 2013
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February 22, 2013
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February 28, 2013
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February 28, 2013
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February 28, 2013
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March 01, 2013
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March 07, 2013
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March 07, 2013
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March 08, 2013
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March 08, 2013
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March 14, 2013
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March 14, 2013
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March 14, 2013
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March 14, 2013
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March 14, 2013
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March 21, 2013
Argentina
March 21, 2013
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March 22, 2013
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March 28, 2013
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March 29, 2013
Estonia
March 29, 2013
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April 03, 2013
France
April 04, 2013
Croatia
April 05, 2013
Spain
April 10, 2013
Belgium
April 12, 2013
Denmark
April 12, 2013
Poland
April 19, 2013
Poland
April 19, 2013
Sweden
April 25, 2013
Germany
April 26, 2013
Turkey
May 01, 2013
Italy
May 02, 2013
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May 09, 2013
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May 09, 2013
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May 16, 2013
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May 17, 2013
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May 30, 2013
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June 14, 2013
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A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
Blood stains. We don't know what has happened, or where, or to whom.Emily Taylor's husband Martin (Channing Tatum) is serving a four-year prison sentence for insider trading. . She visits her in prison, passing through the desk guard (Carmen Peláez). As he is about to be released, Emily thanks her boss (Polly Draper) for her support. She received her husband with joy, together with Martin's mother (Ann Dowd). That night, at their middle-class house, they make love, although she doesn't seem really focused or attached to it. Martin mentions a certain Marshall Hellman he knew while doing time that used to work as some sort of banker and may give him some marvelous job in Duwai. Marshall was in for some tax fraud, but will be out soon. Martin promises to make Emily affluent as well. Emily answers "OK, babe," but once again, she doesn't look happy, or interested, or having any kind of emotional response.Emily goes to the parking lot for her car. Her face looks blank, as usual. Her handbag falls down for no apparent reason, and a garage attendant (Haraldo Álvarez) helps her out. Shortly afterwards, Emily drives her car into a concrete wall in an apparent suicide attempt. She seems to have let herself go.Jonathan Banks (Jude Law) is trying to calm down a police officer who's manhandling (James Martínez) a patient in a rough way. The patient, Augustin (Vladimi Versailles), only speaks French, and calms down when Banks speaks to him in the same language. The problem happened to be that Augustin had seen his late father driving a cab. Jonathan tells the cop that for Haitians it's a normal assumed thing to see dead relatives after they are dead, in their process of feeling grief and going over it. The Desk Nurse (Jacqueline Antaramian), tells Banks to tendo to Emily Taylor, with a minor head trauma. Banks is her assigned psychiatrist. Emily looks unfocused when she's questioned by Banks. The insurance company is going to be on her, as there was not even an attempt to halt to a stop and the breaks look alright. Banks gives some instructions to Martin and his mother. Banks puts her on an anti-depressant medication. He fears for her safety but agrees to her release from the hospital as long as she attends sessions with him on a regular basis, on Martin's charge.Emily goes back to work. Her co-worker Joan (Michelle Vergara Moore) sees her running to the lavatory and asks her whether she's OK. Emily drinks some water from the tab and looks at her horrible appearance. Her boss notices her throwing up and says that the pills she's taking used to throw her up as well, and mentions another medication, Celexa, which worked better for her.She tries a series of SSRI anti-depressant medications, but none of them work. Emily tells Jonathan that she wanted to be into graphic design, that's what she moved to New York. While working on a pub to pay for her school fees, she met a guy who finally took her on a boat trip.Jonathan contacts Emily's previous psychiatrist in Connecticut, Dr Victoria Siebert (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who suggests that Jonathan put Emily on a new drug called Ablixa. Victoria says that Emily felt invisible towards her father, and that she felt abandoned again when Martin went to jail, so it's better that she's seeing a male psychologist this time. Victoria says that new drugs have a kind of placebo effect in some patients, so she's trying the new med in another one of her patients. Victoria also mentions a miscarriage which Emily hadn't mentioned to Jonathan, who is reluctant to put Emily on the experimental drug.Jonathan and Victoria speak before a conference Victoria is about to hear. Meanwhile, Emily and Martin go to a concert. Carl (David Constabile) has given them the tickets, and Martin thinks that this is because he was the one who went to the federals, and Carl now feels rotten about it. She tells Emily not to mention the Hellman possibility to Carl and his partner Kayla (Mamie Gummer). They dress up to the nines. Emily goes to pick the drinks from the bartender (Steven Platt). Emily looks at herself in the mirror and feels that she can't go on. Kayla is also on medication. Kayla goes to fetch Martin, but Emily has to leave the room. Martin hugs her on the terraced balcony and takes her away.We can see the happy face of a model (Onika Day) advertising Ablixa. Emily is on the underground. She looks towards a cop and prepares herself to jump, but Beahan (Victor Cruz) prevents her to jump. Jonathan is recommending his wife, Dierdre (Vinessa Shaw) a beta-depressant so she won't feel nervous when she attends the job interview in direct competition with two other highly-qualified candidates. Emily appears and interrupts Jonathan and Deirdre's conversation.As she has attempted suicide a second time by trying to jump onto a subway track, Jonathan puts her on heavy medication. The medication works, enabling Emily to function normally besides occasional sleepwalking episodes, a side effect of the drug. Banks and his two partners, (Laila Robins and Peter Friedman) are having lunch with a drug representative seller (Andrea Bogart), who's praising a new medicine and needs Banks to put it into the system. Ezra (Mitchell Michaliszyn), Jonathan and Deirdre's son interrupts their private sexual moment. Emily is happy again, walking down the street with Martin, laughing, having passionate sex with him. Martin notices the change in Emily and comments that, whoever invented that pill, is going to become rich. Emily prepares lunch and sets the music high while sleepwalking. Emily doesn't want to change medication. Martin is going to visit Hellman in prison and plans to open an office in Houston. Another patient of Banks (Elizabeth Rich) will start the medication because she doesn't need to pay a cent for it. Emily arrives late to work because she looked at the model figure of a sailboat. Her boss tells her to go home for the day, but that can't happen again. Back home, Emily takes a pill and is able to smile.Jonathan consoles D, who has lost the job to a guy from Citicorp. Martin comes home after talking to Hellman, and it looks like the business will succeed. Emily is preparing a glorious romantic dinner, but without even opening her mouth, she stabs Martin to death while seemingly sleepwalking. NYPD Detective (Scott Shepherd) questions her and she says that she went to sleep and then woke up to see him dead. Jonathan has to go to the police station, as Emily won't stop saying her name. Emily was setting the table for three, but Jonathan wasn't expected there. Jonathan brings out the sleepwalking side effect, but the detective and the assistant District Attorney (Michael Nathanson) look at each other in disbelief. The District Attorney tells him t hat somebody will be punished, Emily or Jonathan: or Emily is a murderer, or Jonathan mistreated her.Emily is brought to trial by Klein (Timothy Klein), and Jonathan fights for her acquittal. He is criticized publicly for fumbling Emily's case. Emily is pushed to take some sleep pills by the prison's doctor, but she says that she doesn't want to see another pill in her life again. Victoria tells Jonathan that he couldn't have done anything else. Emily's lawyer (Sheila Tapia) produces cases in which the accused was acquitted because of the sleepwalking idea. Banks is in dire straits, and he admits to that. Martin's mother is paying the lawyer. Banks can't sleep now because of Emily's case. Emily writes a letter and Martin's mother reads it in a TV programme. The TV anchor (Josh Elliott) tries to understand why she is helping her daughter-in-law. Nobody from the Ablixa factory wanted to comment, but Dr. Peter Joubert (Sasha Bardey) says there are reasons for the compulsory inclusion of a black box in the anti-depressant box. Reporters (Ashley Morrison and Steve Lacy) pester the three Banks' household members. Banks' patients (Ken Marks & Devin Ratray) start acting weird because of the case. Banks' colleagues assume he has been negligent due to his heavy work-load. Jeffrey Childs (Russell G. Jones) interrogates Jonathan Banks. Jonathan claims that because his wife lost his job, and all the bills he had to pay pushed him to do multiple shifts. Emily eventually agrees to plead insanity; she is declared not guilty on the condition that she stay in a mental institution until cleared by a psychiatrist.Due to the case's bad publicity, Jonathan's career is left in ruins, although he tries to reassure Dierdre. One of the partners brings out the case of Alison Finn, while Jonathan was doing his residency, a girl who stalked him and named him in her suicide note. He says that the oral sex idea with Alison was a fantasy, not real. However, he sets out to clear his name and uncovers evidence that not only did Emily fake her suicide attempts, but was involved in a criminal conspiracy with Victoria, all that with an internet search. Sleepwalking was a side effect of the medicine but Victoria didn't warn Jonathan, and he didn't check. After his conversation with Victoria, Jonathan speaks with the parking attendant at the beginning, who noticed that Emily was wearing her seatbelt. Emily's boss understood Emily's feeling because she felt the same during a hard time in her life, and mentions William Syron's Darkness Visible book. The boss mentions a "poisonous fog" taken from the book, which recalls Jonathan of something which Emily said. Jonathan looks for a Julia which used to work alongside Emily, but there is only a Susan (Susan Gross). Dierdre has to go out and pick up Ezra from school because Jonathan forgot. Dierdre is fed-up.Jonathan interviews Emily at the mental hospital. She looks quite better. Emily tells Jonathan that Julia was somebody she used to work with at the bar, but from whom she hadn't heard from the day of the killing. Jonathan tells Dierdre his suspicions of a conspiration to make rival companies go up in the stock market. Dierdre tells him to quit the case. After being administered what Jonathan claims is a truth serum. Emily behaves as if she's groggy from the drug, mentioning Madeleine, the miscarriage she had, which unbeknownst to her is actually a placebo: saltwater. This confirms Jonathan's suspicions, but the District Attorney cannot do anything about it.When Jonathan confronts Victoria with his findings, and the fact that Victoria visited Emily at the mental hospita. She emails photographs to Jonathan's wife implying he had an affair with Emily; Jonathan's wife and stepson leave him. Jonathan manages to turn Emily and Victoria against each other by using legal means to prevent contact between them and making each believe that her partner had sold her out to Jonathan for a better deal.Emily reveals the workings of the plot to Jonathan: she enjoyed the rich life and hated Martin for causing her to lose it. She specifically went to Victoria for counseling as she, too, had been abandoned by her husband, and the two began a romantic and sexual relationship. They taught each other about the workings of the financial world and faking psychiatric disorders. They then went to elaborate means to fake the side effects of Ablixa in order to manipulate the stock prices of the drug's manufacturer and its competitor, allowing the duo to become rich in the process.Jonathan agrees to release Emily from the psychiatric ward under his care. Wearing a wire, she immediately re-unites with Victoria, who admits details of the plot to Emily. Victoria is arrested for conspiracy to commit murder, but Emily, due to double jeopardy, can no longer be held criminally responsible for her part in Martin's murder.
As retaliation for Emily's part in the plot, Jonathan, who still technically oversees her case, prescribes her a series of unnecessary drugs with serious side effects, threatening to send her back to the ward if she refuses, and even implying that he now works for Victoria, who's paying him to put Emily through electric shock treatment, which damages the patient's memory. Emily wants to phone her lawyer, but another patient is on the phone (Nicole Ansari-Cox), mumbling and taking forever. Emily insists to the Wards Island desk nurse (LaChanze), who tells her that Dr Banks has forbidden her to use the phone anyway. An orderly (Craig muMs Grant) takes Emily away by sheer force. Another nurse (Alice Niedermair-Ludwig) injects something in her arm to calm her down.Emily watches from her cell window Jonathan and Victoria talk calmly in the hospital yard, which makes Emily think that they're conspiring against her. Furious, Emily rants about all that she has done to avoid being sent to prison for Martin's death. Emily had got used to the high life, but then, he was taken away. She went to Victoria Siebert's office and they become lovers. They did everything because Victoria had invested in a rival company. It was just a matter of chance that Jonathan was Emily's psychiatrist.Jonathan asks the judge to release Emily, while Victoria is present. Victoria has returned back to her office and her previous work. Emily appears at Victoria's practice and they kiss each other passionately. Emily is wired and the police take Victoria away. Unbeknownst to Emily - who's just seeing Jonathan, the District attorney, her lawyer, and a police officer are all outside the room and hear the confession, because she refuses to take Jonathan's heavy medication. The police officers (Dennis Rees &Aaron Roman Weiner) take runaway Emily into custody and send her back to the mental ward.In the final scene, Jonathan has regained his normal life with his wife and son, and they get together after Ezra's school. Emily sits in the ward, staring blankly out the window. A psychiatric nurse asks Emily how she's feeling, and she responds by saying apathetically: "Better. Much Better."Outside her hospital room, life goes on, with all the noise of the traffic jam and the life.
Steven Soderbergh
Director(s)
Scott Z. Burns
Writer(s)
Sasha Bardey
co-producer
Scott Z. Burns
producer
Elena de Leonardis
co-producer
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
producer
Douglas Hansen
executive producer
Gregory Jacobs
producer
Michael Polaire
executive producer
James D. Stern
executive producer
Producer(s)
Thomas Newman
Composer(s)
Emily Taylor
Rooney Mara
Prison Desk Guard
Carmen Pelaez
Upset Visitor
Marin Ireland
Martin Taylor
Channing Tatum
Emily's Boss
Polly Draper
Garage Attendant
Haraldo Alvarez
Dr. Jonathan Banks
Jude Law
Police Officer at Hospital
James Martinez
Augustin
Vladimi Versailles
Desk Nurse
Jacqueline Antaramian
Joan
Michelle Vergara Moore
Dr. Victoria Siebert
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Conference Organizer
Katie Lowes
Carl
David Costabile
Kayla
Mamie Gummer
Bartender
Steven Platt
NYPD Officer Beahan
Victor Cruz
Dierdre Banks
Vinessa Shaw
Pharmacist
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Banks Partner #1
Peter Friedman
Drug Rep
Andrea Bogart
Banks Partner #2
Laila Robins
Ezra Banks
Mitchell Michaliszyn
Banks Patient #1
Elizabeth Rich
Paramedic #1
Roderick Rodriguez
Paramedic #2
Mark Weekes
NYPD Detective
Scott Shepherd
Assistant District Attorney
Michael Nathanson
Transporting Officer Klein
Timothy Klein
Emily's Attorney
Sheila Tapia
GMA Anchor
Josh Elliott
Dr. Peter Joubert
Sasha Bardey
Reporter #1
Ashley Morrison
Reporter #2
Steve Lacy
Banks Patient #2
Ken Marks
Banks Patient #3
Devin Ratray
Jeffrey Childs
Russell G. Jones
Judge #1
Munro M. Bonnell
Susan
Susan Gross
Wards Island Administrator
Debbie Friedlander
Director(s)
Writer(s)
co-producer
Scott Z. Burns
producer
Elena de Leonardis
co-producer
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
producer
Douglas Hansen
executive producer
Gregory Jacobs
producer
Michael Polaire
executive producer
James D. Stern
executive producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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