A Dangerous Method

Genre: Biography

Worldwide gross$30.5M

Suffering from hysteria, Sabina Spielrein is hospitalized under the care of Dr. Carl Jung who has begun using Dr. Sigmund Freud's talking cure with some of his patients. Spielrain's psychological problems are deeply rooted in her childhood and violent father. She is highly intelligent however and hopes to be a doctor, eventually becoming a psychiatrist in her own right. The married Jung and Spielrein eventually become lovers. Jung and Freud develop an almost father-son relationship with Freud seeing the young Jung as his likely successor as the standard-bearer of his beliefs. A deep rift develops between them when Jung diverges from Freud's belief that while psychoanalysis can reveal the cause of psychological problems it cannot cure the patient.

🏆 19 wins & 38 nominations total

Genres

Biography, Drama, Romance

Director

David Cronenberg

Cast

Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen

Released

10 November 2011

Runtime

1h 39m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

6.4 / 10

Votes

112,126

Metascore

76

Rotten Tomatoes

78

Box office

$5,704,709

Budget

$15,000,000

Edition

Base