Hitchcock (2012)

Directors

Sacha Gervasi

Cast

Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, Toni Collette, Danny Huston, Michael Wincott, Kurtwood Smith, Michael Stuhlbarg, James D'Arcy

The story

In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock opens his latest film, North by Northwest, to both critical and commercial success, but is troubled by a reporter's insinuation that he should retire. Seeking to reclaim the artistic daring of his youth, Hitchcock turns down film proposals, including Casino Royale and The Diary of Anne Frank, in favor of a horror novel called Psycho by Robert Bloch, based on the real-life crimes of murderer Ed Gein. Gein appears in sequences throughout the film, in which he seems to prompt Hitchcock's imagination regarding the Psycho story or act as some function of Hitchcock's subconscious mind.

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