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Name: Possession
Released: 2002-8-16
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle, Lena Headey

Possession

PG-13
1h 42m
2002

63%

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Academy Award® winner Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love) and Aaron Eckhart (Thank You for Smoking) star in this seductively intriguing mystery that critics hailed as “the most romantic film of the year!” (Bill Zwecker, Fox-TV) Dedicated literary scholars Maud Bailey (Paltrow) and Roland Michell (Eckhart) have nothing in common, except their obsession with the two Victorian poets they have devoted their lives to studying. When a newly discovered cache of love letters reveals that the two writers had been entangled in a forbidden affair, everything changes for Maud and Roland as they set off on a wildly romantic journey in search of the truth about the fascinating past… and their own passionate present.

Director:

Neil LaBute

Producer:

Paula Weinstein, Barry Levinson

Writer:

David Henry Hwang, Laura Jones, Neil LaBute

Cast:

Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle, Lena Headey

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

63%

Critics Consensus: It's perhaps a bit tame and uninspiring, considering its subject matter, but Possession manages enough romance and period intrigue to satisfy most fans of its source material.

Reviews

The Advocate

Jan Stuart

Possession is finally too truncated for material that wants to be a sinuous six-hour miniseries.

Glossy romance with pretty people.

A film like this rides on the quality of the acting, and the Brits -- Northam and Ehle -- invest their forbidden love with centuries of fine repressed English tradition.