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Box Office: $10,058,448
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CONSENSUS
Based on Byatt's novel of the same name, Possession is a lovely, literate romance.
CAST & CREW
Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam
Directed by Neil LaBute, Barry Levinson
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SYNOPSIS
Set in both contemporary and Victorian England, POSSESSION, directed by Neil LaBute, is based on the novel by A.S. Byatt. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, sexuality and some thematic elements
RUNTIME
1 hour, 43 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Aug 16, 2002
Video: Feb 11, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
USA Films
GENRE
Dramas, Drama, Romance, History, Infidelity, Literature, Poets, Based On A Novel
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Possession Site
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 "The journey to the secret's eventual discovery is a separate adventure, and thrill enough."
-- Jack Zink, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"A literary detective story is still a detective story and aficionados of the whodunit won't be disappointed."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"Possession is Elizabeth Barrett Browning meets Nancy Drew, and it's directed by... Neil LaBute. Hmm."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, FANTASTICA DAILY
"A pleasant enough romance with intellectual underpinnings, the kind of movie that entertains even as it turns maddeningly predictable."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"LaBute’s careful handling makes the material seem genuine rather than pandering."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"If you love reading and/or poetry, then by all means check it out. You'll probably love it."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"This is as respectful a film as Byatt fans could hope for, though lovers of the book may wonder why it's necessary."
-- Catharine Tunnacliffe, EYE WEEKLY
"Throwing it all away for the fleeting joys of love's brief moment."
-- Jeet Thayil, REDIFF.COM
 "For a movie about the power of poetry and passion, there is precious little of either."
-- Gemma Tarlach, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"There's no point in extracting the bare bones of Byatt's plot for purposes of bland Hollywood romance."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"The performances are strong, though the subject matter demands acting that borders on hammy at times."
-- Gerry Shamray, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"Since the film let go of the author's poetry and built no suspense for its mystery, all that's left are a few odd romantic moments alone with the
Victorians..."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"would make an excellent companion piece to the similarly themed 'The French Lieutenant's Woman.'"
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
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"Intensely romantic, thought-provoking and even an engaging mystery."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"As a film director, LaBute continues to improve."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
""An entire film about researchers quietly reading dusty old letters.""
-- Joshua Tyler, FILM HOBBIT
"Stripped almost entirely of such tools as nudity, profanity and violence, LaBute does manage to make a few points about modern man and his problematic quest for human connection."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"Watching Possession is a movie experience not much deeper than you'd get on your couch watching Masterpiece Theater or Mystery! -- pleasant enough, but oh so soft."
-- Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY
"A lovely film...elegant, witty and beneath a prim exterior unabashedly romantic...hugely enjoyable in its own right though not really faithful to its source's complexity."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"'Possession,' based on the book by A.S. Byatt, demands that LaBute deal with the subject of love head-on; trading in his cynicism for reverence and a little wit"
-- Vanessa Sibbald, ZAP2IT.COM
"LaBute masterfully balances both Traditional or Modern stories together in a manner that one never overwhelms the other. Something for everyone."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"LaBute was more fun when his characters were torturing each other psychologically and talking about their genitals in public."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"Suffocated by its fussy script and uptight characters, this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold back to us by Hollywood."
-- Jamie Russell, BBCI FILMS
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ROTTEN 53%
Avg. Rating: 6.1/10 |
"Straightforward and old-fashioned in the best possible senses of both those words, Possession is a movie that puts itself squarely in the service of the lovers who inhabit it."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"On its own cinematic terms, it successfully showcases the passions of both the director and novelist Byatt."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"A gorgeous, somnolent show that is splendidly mummified and thoroughly unsurprising."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"LaBute can't avoid a fatal mistake in the modern era: He's changed the male academic from a lower-class Brit to an American, a choice that upsets the novel's exquisite balance and shreds the fabric of the film."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Maud and Roland's search for an unknowable past makes for a haunting literary detective story, but LaBute pulls off a neater trick in Possession: He makes language sexy."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Catch your breath, kindred spirits: Possession is the most romantic movie to come our way since The English Patient."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"Possession is in the end an honorable, interesting failure. It falls far short of poetry, but it's not bad prose."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"Ultimately, the film never recovers from the clumsy cliché of the ugly American abroad, and the too-frosty exterior Ms. Paltrow employs to authenticate her British persona is another liability."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"A lovely and beautifully photographed romance."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"It is risky, intelligent, romantic and rapturous from start to finish."
-- Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER
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"Both a detective story and a romance spiced with the intrigue of academic skullduggery and politics."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Possession" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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