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1962, Movie, NR, 140 mins

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Overlong, tedious, and far too complex, FREUD attempts to synthesize so much into 140 minutes that it misses on many levels. Clift was miscast as the eminent Jewish doctor from Vienna. Not in a trillion years could that Yankee face convincingly represent Sigmund. Instead of showing several patients, the writers portray York as a composite, a woman of multiple neuroses. She's fixated on her father (an Electra complex), hysterical, and sexually repressed. The film begins as th... read more leave a comment
Year: 1962
Rated NR

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Montgomery Clift: Sigmund Freud
Susannah York: Cecily Koertner
Larry Parks: Dr. Joseph Breuer
Susan Kohner: Martha Freud
Eric Portman: Dr. Theodore Meynert
Eileen Herlie: Frau Ida Koertner

 

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