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Release Date
• USA: Feb 23, 1996
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 12, 2000
• R2: 7 Feb 2000
Budget $47,000,000
MPAA Rating
Rated R for notable gore and some strong violence.
Running Time
1 hour, 48 minutes
Country USA
Studio Sony Pictures Entertainment, TriStar
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Genre: Thriller, Drama, Horror, Doctor, Mistaken Identity, Suspense, Love, Love Triangle, Psychodrama, Period Piece, Mad Scientists
Tagline: Evil loves innocence.
Plot: This Gothic melodrama, adapted from the novel by Valerie Martin, depicts the infamous tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the perspective of Dr. Jekyll's naive housemaid, a poor servant girl from gloomy Edinburgh named Mary Reilly (Julia Roberts). Having suffered an emotionally and physically wrenching childhood at the hands of her cruel father, Mary grew up with a dichotomous view of men. It is then fitting that the adult Mary becomes a housekeeper for one Dr. Jekyll (John Malkovich). Slowly, the reserved woman begins to open up to him emotionally, and the two become close. However, as Mary begins to innocently spy on the well respected doctor, she soon discovers strange secrets about his personality, including nightly outings to a seedy bordello run by a vicious madam (Glenn Close). When Jekyll's assistant, Hyde, begins working at the mansion, Mary becomes attracted to him, for he is younger, stronger and more virile than Jekyll. Amidst the ominous walls of the doctor's foreboding home, Mary is forced to realize the truth about her employer and his seductive
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 Mary Reilly is, in essence, an artistic film that was mistakenly mass-marketed. Just like Jekyll and Hyde, the movie wants to be ambitious and complacent at the same time. It worked for him, it doesn't quite work for the movie.  --Jack Witzig (ColdSpot)
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