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In Treatment
Why this pick
Like The Patient, it makes therapy an intense dramatic arena, using tightly focused conversations to expose grief, denial, and morally fraught emotional dependence.
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SERIES2022 0h 30m / episode USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Therapist Alan Strauss is held prisoner by a patient, Sam Fortner, who reveals himself to be a serial killer. Sam has an unusual therapeutic demand for Alan: curb his homicidal urges. In order to survive, Alan must unwind Sam's disturbed mind and stop him from killing again... but Sam refuses to address critical topics, like his mother Candace. Alone in captivity, Alan excavates his own past through memories of his old therapist and grapples with waves of his own repressed troubles – the recent death of his wife and the painful estrangement from his religious son Ezra. Over the course of his imprisonment, Alan uncovers not only how deep Sam's compulsion runs, but also how much work he has to do to repair the rift in his own family. With time running out, Alan fights desperately to stop Sam before Alan becomes complicit in Sam's murders or worse – becomes a target himself.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Steve Carell
Alan Strauss
Domhnall Gleeson
Sam Fortner
Linda Emond
Candace Fortner
Laura Niemi
Beth
Andrew Leeds
Ezra Strauss
David Alan Grier
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