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Gerald's Game

Gerald's Game

Horror · Thriller · 2017

When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.

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Gerald's Game

“Some games you play. Some you survive.”

2017 Horror · Thriller 1h 44m

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6.4 / 10

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When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Mike Flanagan

Written by

Jeff Howard · Mike Flanagan

Carla Gugino

Carla Gugino

Jessie

Bruce Greenwood

Bruce Greenwood

Gerald

Carel Struycken

Carel Struycken

Moonlight Man

Chiara Aurelia

Chiara Aurelia

Young Jessie

Henry Thomas

Henry Thomas

Tom

Kate Siegel

Kate Siegel

Sally

A

Adalyn Jones

Maddie

Court is in session

Put Gerald's Game on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Cool Ironist

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Prestige Tourist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.