What if a pill could make you rich and powerful?
Cast |
Bradley Cooper, Robert de Niro, Abbie Cornish, Andrew Howard, Anna Friel, Johnny Whitworth |
Director |
Neil Burger |
Screenplay | Leslie Dixon, from the novel by Alan Glynn |
Music | Paul Leonard-Morgan |
Cinematography | Jo Willems |
Editing | Tracy Adams, Naomi Geraghty |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
Made in | 2011 |
Produced by | Many Rivers Productions, Boy of the Year, Intermedia, Relativity Media, Virgin Produced |
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Genre | Drama, thriller |
Language | Mild, fairly infrequent, in context |
Nudity | None |
Sex | Brief scenes of risque implied sex |
Violence | Moderate to strong violence, some bloody gory scenes |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | Mild, occasional |
Drug abuse | Use and abuse of illegal hallucinogenic drugs, glamourisation. No unambiguous anti-drug message. |
Comments | None |
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What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith | 10 | ![]() |
Die Burger Jeanne Calitz ![]() | 10 | ![]() |
Cape Times Christy Lemire ![]() | 15 | ![]() |
iAfrica.com Candace Whitehead | 10 | ![]() |
The Citizen Peter Feldman | 14 | ![]() |
24.com Inge van Eetveldt | 10 | ![]() |
Box Office Wade Major ![]() | 5 | ![]() |
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert ![]() | 13 | ![]() |
eye Weekly Jason Anderson ![]() | 10 | ![]() |
ReelViews James Berardinelli ![]() | 13 | ![]() |
ScreenIt T. Durgin ![]() | 10 | ![]() |
Metacritic.com 37 critics | 12 | ![]() |
Rottentomatoes critics 164 critics | 13 | ![]() |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer ![]() | 14 | ![]() |
What the People say | ||
Internet 11480 Netizens ![]() | 15 | ![]() |
Average .. 58% | 12 | ![]() |