Directed by:
Richard LedesCinematography:
Stephen KazmierskiComposer:
Stephen TraskCast:
Michelle Williams, Tim Guinee, Meat Loaf, Louis Zorich, Robb Wells, Bill Raymond, John Paul Tremblay, Wendell Pierce, Merritt Wever, Jonathan Watton (more)Plots(1)
Anna (Michelle Williams), a young woman in the 1950s obsessed with mental health. When her brother returns home from the war changed and depressed and her gangster boyfriend, Billy (Meat Loaf Aday) kills someone in front of her, it becomes more than she can take and she looks for a way to relieve her pain. She becomes convinced that the only way she can be happy is by having a transorbital lobotomy, the latest technique in brain surgery. Billy hires Tom, a sympathetic Korean War vet to pose as doctor and dissuade her from getting a lobotomy. An attraction between the two develops and eventually she becomes caught between these two men who must then decide her fate. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Michelle Williams
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Louis Zorich
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Robb Wells
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Bill Raymond
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Wendell Pierce
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Heidi von Palleske
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Jeremy Akerman
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John Dunsworth
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Paul MacLeod
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Mark Day
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