Unsane

Is she or isn’t she?.


Unsane
A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear... but is it real or is it a product of her delusion? Soderbergh shot the entire film on his iPhone.

97 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Violence, Horror, Drug abuse).
Horror, Thriller, On the art circuit

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

They’re crazy if they think I’m insane...
They’re crazy if they think I’m insane...

Credits

Cast
Joshua Leonard, Claire Foy, Sarah Stiles, Marc Kudisch, Amy Irving, Colin Woodell, Myra Lucretia Taylor
Director
Steven Soderbergh
ScreenplayJonathan Bernstein, James Greer
CinematographySteven Soderbergh
EditingSteven Soderbergh
Made in2018
Produced byExtension 765, New Regency Pictures, Regency Enterprises

IMDB page | ScreenIt Report | CommonSenseMedia Report
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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

GenreHorror
LanguageThe material contains strong impact crude frequent language used in a demeaning context and used as an expression of frustration and would be distasteful, sensitive, threatening and morally harmful for children under 16.
NudityNone
SexNone (sic)
ViolenceThe material contains strong impact, frequent, emotional and psychological realistic violence
PrejudiceNone
BlasphemyNone
Drug abuseNone (sic)
CommentsThe film contains scenes of horror.
The material contains complex and mature suspense, psychological and emotional themes of being stalked, mental illness, fear, asylum, police investigation, fighting for justice, forced love, torture, obsessive behaviour, friendship, assault, murder, wrong diagnosis, kidnapping and going through frustration. Themes expose psychotic and mentally unstable behaviours of individuals who become extremely dangerous for their own selfish reasons that lead to forceful love, stalking and obsessive behaviour that ends up hurting other individuals and causing them pain. Themes are emotional, distressing, psychologically threatening and would be inappropriate for children under the age of 16. The innocent victims who goes through trauma of losing her loved ones, undergoes kidnapping after being stalked and eventually suffers from PTSD. The film is morally harmful.
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

USA MPAA rating

R: RestrictedRated R for disturbing behavior, violence, language, and sex references.
Runtime98
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity
4
Violence
5
Blood / Gore / Gross
4
Guns / Weapons
4
Profanity
5
Alcohol / Drugs
4
Smoking
2
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude
5
Imitative Behaviour
4
Frightening / Tense Scenes
4
Jump Scenes
1
Tense Family Scenes
4
Music (Scary/Tense)
4
Music (Inappropriate)
0
Topics to talk about
5

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit
16 +
Positive messages
2
Positive role models
3
Violence
4
Sex
1
Language
4
Consumerism
0
Drinking, drugs, smoking
0

Ratings

Scale (Max)20

What the Critics say

ScreenIt
Jim Judy quote iconWhatever the case and regardless of how I might have tinkered with the script to keep the uncertainty going as long as possible, what’s present works well enough.
12
Metacritic.com
44 critics
13
Rottentomatoes critics
163 critics
13
Rottentomatoes tomatometer
Tomatometer quote iconUnsane unleashes Steven Soderbergh’s inner B-movie maestro, wading into timeless psychological thriller territory and giving it a high-tech filmmaking spin.
16
Movie Review Query Engine
MRQE critics quote icon
13
CommonSenseMedia
Michael Ordona quote iconDisturbing violence, swearing in Soderbergh thriller.
10

What the People say

Metacritic.com users
40 users
14
Rottentomatoes users
1282 users
12
IMDB
5140 Netizens
14
The Movie DB
Community
12

Average .. 65%

13

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