Hitchcock (2012)

PG-1311/22/2012Drama1h 38m
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Behind every Psycho is a great woman.

Overview

Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel "Psycho." When the studio refuses to back the picture, Hitchcock decides to pay for it himself in exchange for a percentage of the profits. His wife, Alma Reville, has serious reservations about the film but supports him nonetheless. Still, the production strains the couple's marriage.

Top Billed Cast

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    Anthony Hopkins

    Alfred Hitchcock

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    Helen Mirren

    Alma Reville

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    Scarlett Johansson

    Janet Leigh

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    Danny Huston

    Whitfield Cook

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    Toni Collette

    Peggy Robertson

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    Michael Stuhlbarg

    Lew Wasserman

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    Michael Wincott

    Ed Gein

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    Jessica Biel

    Vera Miles

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    James D'Arcy

    Anthony Perkins

Good evening. Our film tonight is about a man obsessed with murder. It is a tale of violence, of lies and deceit, of envy and greed. It is, naturally, a love story. In the year 1960, the film Psycho burst onto theatre screens, beginning one of the greatest decades of change in American cinema with shrieking violins and a blood-curdling scream. The man behind the movie, director extraordinaire Alfred Hitchcock, was as much a public figure as his leading ladies and men. He managed to thrust the unsuspecting (and unprepared) public into violence and perversion that was (at the time) beyond the...