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Equus is a 1977 psychological drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Peter Shaffer, based on his play of the same name. The film stars Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins, and Jenny Agutter.
- $4 million
Oct 20, 1977 · Equus: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright. A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.
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- Drama, Mystery
- Sidney Lumet
- 1977-10-20
Reviews. Equus. Roger Ebert November 09, 1977. Tweet. Horse and Peter Firth in "Equus." Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The blinding of horses is something that works a great deal better as stage symbolism than as cinematic fact, and that's one of the several things wrong with the way “Equus” has been brought to the screen.
Dr. Martin Dysart (Richard Burton), a psychiatrist who has grown unhappy with his life, takes on the peculiar case of Alan Strang (Peter Firth), a reserved teenager who has been accused of brutally...
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- Sidney Lumet
- R
- Richard Burton
Summaries. A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses. Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Burton) investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England.
Overview. A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother.
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