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Equus
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by MGM (Video & DVD)
Sales Rank: 18354
Price: $14.95
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A film adaptation of the famous play by Peter Shaffer, <I>Equus</I> stars Richard Burton (<I>Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?</I>, <I>1984</I>) as Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist who takes on an unusual case: a young stable boy (Peter Firth, <I>The Hunt for Red October</I>) who, in a frenzy, has blinded six horses. Their sessions reveal that the boy has a quasi-religious fetish for horses and he rides them in the dead of night, experiencing an ecstasy unlike anything Dysart has ever known. Dysart begins to question: Is the pursuit of normalcy worth the loss of individual passions? <I>Equus</I> features a lot of hokum--its therapy scenes are absurd crescendos of revelation and insights. But its central question has substance, the direction is energetic, and the performances are powerful; Burton, handsome and haggard, brings a complex self-loathing to his role. Also featuring Jenny Agutter (<I>Logan's Run</I>) and Joan Plowright (<I>Enchanted April</I>). <I>--Bret Fetzer</I>
Viewer Reviews
A well-directed arthouse style movie. It is disturbing but necessarily so...brilliant performance by Richard Burton!
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