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Possession

Possession

2002
Romance, Drama
1h 42m
Roland Michell is an Americian trying to make it in the difficult world of British Academics. He has yet to break out from under his mentor's shadow until he finds a pair of love letters in the textbook that once belonged to one of his idols, a famous long dead Victorian poet. Michell, after some sleuthing around, narrows down the suspects to a woman not his wife, another well known Victorian poet. Roland enlists the aid of a Dr. Maud Bailey, an expert on the life of the woman in question... (imdb)

Possession

2002
Romance, Drama
1h 42m
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Rated 15 Oct 2020
51
30th
The last Neil LaBute film i saw in TV, was Nurse Betty. So Possession is very much different than his previous movie. Looks like Eckhart is LaBute's favored actor and actually he is doing very good performance in Rolands role. I rather found this film boring and didn't like those jumps between past and present.
Rated 21 Oct 2012
50
14th
Good on romance. Falls on continuity in the Victorian story.
Rated 23 Mar 2011
65
40th
Like so many films, this rather "quaint" and touching film descends into farce towards the end, with your stereotypical baddies robbing graves and so many co-incidences occurring that credibility goes out the window. As a work of fiction, parralleling 2 love affairs 150 years apart, it is different enough to be interesting, but, and I hate to say it, Paltrow is really unconvincing .... Eckhart is excellent, and frankly, he should move on, Paltrow would bore him to tears
Rated 23 Mar 2011
0
15th
Inert adaptation of a complex novel, too genteel in tone to convey either the rivalries and excitements of literary discovery or the overpowering emotions of hidden love.
Rated 02 Jun 2009
4
22nd
A lesbian movie with no make-out scene? What's the point?
Rated 14 Aug 2007
46
22nd
Aaron Eckhart and Gwyneth Paltrow have the chemistry of a soggy napkin. Jennifer Ehle saves this, although she's barely in it.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
80
57th
Adored this movie, and never understood why it was so underrated. I thought Neil LaBute did a great job adapting a sprawlingly complex novel, which I also adored. Paltrow and Eckhart seemed well-matched to me, although they weren't as hot as their parallel young lovers in the past, played by Jeremy Northam and Jennifer Ehle.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
76
58th
Hard to believe this is Neil LaBute... it's quite romantic and touching, although not especially memorable.
Rated 18 Jul 2007
85
61st
I can't stand Gweneth Paltrow, but it has Jane Austen-esque qualities.

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