Equus

Equus

I am yours and you are mine.

Directed by Sidney Lumet

Produced by United Artists, Persky-Bright Productions

1977137 min7.0 / 10

A psychologically intense, deeply introspective drama that uses a shocking crime to excavate the spiritual and psychological wounds of both perpetrator and healer.

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. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.