Side Effects

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  • Opened February 8, 2013 
  • 1 hr 45 min
  • R | Sexuality, nudity, violence and language.
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+. More on child suitability

  • SIDE EFFECTS is a provocative thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily's psychiatrist (Jude Law) – intended to treat anxiety – has unexpected side effects. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • Director: Steven Soderbergh
  • Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller

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Bipolar Puts it Best

by MedRed

Side Effects has two very distinct halves. The first part of the movie is slow, meticulous, and intelligent. From someone in the industry, it paints a very realistic picture of depression symptoms...

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It will keep you guessing!

by sjwalsh97

We went to this movie for a date night...my husband picked it. I didn't know a lot about it, which was probably good. It was very interesting with lots of twists and turns, which I like. This is a...

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Smart.

by mlr1012

Great film. Keeps you guessing. I gasped, along with the rest of the audience, several times. Mara, Law, and Zeta-Jones were phenomenal. If you do nothing else this weekend, go see Side Effects....

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Wall Street Journal
| Joe Morgenstern

In another sense, though, everything is exactly what it seems, expertly crafted and cleverly compounded for high-dose entertainment. Read full review

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Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

Side Effects is Soderbergh in full, flinty vigor. It's anything but a formula murder mystery. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

Side Effects, chilly and noirish, and boasting a wily performance from Catherine Zeta-Jones as a therapist who worked with Emily earlier in her adulthood, is, Soderbergh says, his swan song. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Owen Gleiberman

Side Effects is mostly a good Saturday-night movie, but by the end, it's caused a few unintended side effects of its own: a bit of head-scratching, and a giggle or two of disbelief. Read full review

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Rooney Mara in "Side Effects."