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Gerald's Game
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Gerald's Game is a 2017 American thriller and horror film directed, written and edited by Mike Flanagan for Intrepid Pictures. It stars Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Henry Thomas and Carel Struycken, with a score by The Newton Brothers, and is set in Fairhope. The story addresses themes of survival and child sexual abuse.
The film was distributed by Netflix in video-on-demand and direct-to-video formats, and is rated TV-MA.
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6.4When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.
Cast
- Carla Gugino as Jessie
- Bruce Greenwood as Gerald
- Carel Struycken as Moonlight Man
- Chiara Aurelia as Young Jessie
- Henry Thomas as Tom
- Kate Siegel as Sally
Themes
- child abuse
- based on novel or book
- childhood trauma
- sorrow
- car accident
- eclipse
- dog
- ghost
- memoirs
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Ratings
IMDb
6.5/10
140,266 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
77/100
- Year
- 2017
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Awards
- 4 wins & 5 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Mike Flanagan
- Screenplay by
- Mike Flanagan Jeff Howard
- Based on
- Gerald's Game , by Stephen King
- Produced by
- Trevor Macy
- Starring
- Carla Gugino Bruce Greenwood Carel Struycken Henry Thomas Kate Siegel
- Cinematography
- Michael Fimognari
- Edited by
- Mike Flanagan
- Music by
- The Newton Brothers
- Production company
- Intrepid Pictures
- Distributed by
- Netflix
- Release dates
- September 19, 2017 ( 2017-09-19 ) ( BFI Southbank ) September 29, 2017 ( 2017-09-29 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 103 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- horror film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Gerald's Game
- Main subject
- child sexual abuse
- Director
- Mike Flanagan
- Screenwriter
- Mike Flanagan
- Cast member
- Kate Siegel
- Composer
- The Newton Brothers
- Production company
- Intrepid Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Michael Fimognari
- Narrative location
- Fairhope
- Duration
- 103
- FilmAffinity ID
- 905912
- Distribution format
- direct-to-video
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- title
- Gerald's Game
- publication date
- 2017-00-00
- distributed by
- Netflix
- film editor
- Mike Flanagan
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 77/100
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Encyclopedic overview
Gerald's Game is a 2017 American psychological horror thriller film directed and edited by Mike Flanagan, from a screenplay by Flanagan with Jeff Howard. It is based on Stephen King's 1992 novel of the same name, long thought to be unfilmable. The film stars Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood as a married couple who arrive at an isolated house for a holiday. When the husband dies of a sudden heart attack, his wife, left handcuffed to the bed without the key and with little hope of rescue, must find a way to survive, all while battling her inner demons.
Gerald's Game had its world premiere at BFI Southbank on September 19, 2017, and was released on September 29, 2017, by Netflix. It received positive reviews from critics, who lauded Gugino's performance and Flanagan's direction. The film's themes and their treatment were also singled out.
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