A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Acting
Rooney Mara's dead-eyed despair is genuinely unsettling.
Direction
Soderbergh shooting himself as DP under pseudonym—petty king behavior.
Writing
Script flips genres like prescription labels: drama, thriller, crime, courtroom.
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Rooney Mara
Emily Taylor
Jude Law
Jonathan Banks
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Dr. Victoria Siebert
Channing Tatum
Martin Taylor
Vinessa Shaw
Dierdre Banks
Ann Dowd
Mrs. Taylor
Polly Draper
Eileen Spicer
David Costabile
Carl
Mamie Gummer
Kayla
Scott Shepherd
NYPD Detective
Marin Ireland
Upset Visitor
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Pharmacist
Craig muMs Grant
Wards Island Orderly
Carmen Pelaez
Prison Desk Guard
Peter Friedman
Banks' Partner #1
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Soderbergh announced this as his 'retirement' from theatrical filmmaking, then made Logan Lucky four years later because apparently he can't quit us.
The film was initially developed as a companion piece to Contagion, exploring another system—pharmaceutical rather than medical—that fails the public.
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