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Equus
UNITED STATES · 1977

Equus

Sidney Lumet
mental illness religious trauma adolescent psychology animal cruelty psychoanalysis
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Synopsis

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 w

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