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Release Date
• USA: Aug 16, 2002
• UK: 25 Oct 2002
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 11, 2003
Budget $25,000,000
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MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for sexuality and some thematic elements.
Running Time
1 hour, 42 minutes
Country USA, UK
Studio Baltimore Spring Creek Productions, Contagious Films, USA Films, Warner Brothers
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• Possession
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Genre: Mystery, Romance, Drama, Infidelity, Epic, Period Piece, Love
Tagline: The past will connect them. The passion will possess them.
Plot: Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow), a brilliant English academic given to doing things by the book, is researching the life and work of Victorian poet Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle). Roland Michell (Aaron Eckhart) is an upstart American scholar in London on a fellowship to study the great Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam). Ash, the poet laureate to Queen Victoria, is now best-known for a collection of rapturous, late-life poems dedicated to his wife that are going on centenary exhibition.When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to LaMotte, they follow a trail of clues across England to the Continent, echoing the romantic journey of the impassioned couple over a century earlier.
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Neil LaBute
Nurse Betty, In the Company of Men, Your Friends & Neighbors |
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