Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.
Directed by Neil LaBute
based on novel or book
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Cast
Gwyneth Paltrow
Maud Bailey
Aaron Eckhart
Roland Mitchell
Jeremy Northam
Randolph Henry Ash
Jennifer Ehle
Christabel LaMotte
Lena Headey
Blanche Glover
Holly Aird
Ellen Ash
Toby Stephens
Fergus Wolfe
Trevor Eve
Cropper
Georgia Mackenzie
Paola
Tom Hollander
Euan
Graham Crowden
Sir George
Anna Massey
Lady Bailey
Crew
Neil LaBute
Director
Neil LaBute
Screenplay
Gabriel Yared
Original Music Composer
Claire Simpson
Editor
Jean-Yves Escoffier
Director of Photography
David Barron
Executive Producer
Barry Levinson
Producer
Paula Weinstein
Producer
David Henry Hwang
Screenstory
Daniel Laurie
ADR Editor
John Casali
Boom Operator
David Appleby
Still Photographer
Popular Reviews
6 reviews
Tanditka
6.0★ · 03/16/26
непогано, але я дуже перепрошую!! книга краще 😝
непогано, але я дуже перепрошую!! книга краще 😝
Adam
3.6★ · 01/27/21
Nope! Very not good. I don’t want to write sentences because I am very tired so... here’s a list of bad things about Possession:
- Aaron Eckhart is crazy miscast. Lol it’s hilarious that he plays a scholar of Victorian poetry. Also Roland is supposed to be average looking?
- The book is a 10/10 so it’s hard to adapt but they didn’t even add half the scenes???
- It’s too long at 100 minutes.
- No chemistry between either couples. Like no attempt at all.
- The Ash/Christabel love scenes made me so uncomfortable!!
- No visual appeal. Nothing lush or sumptuous about the Victorian scenes.
- Doesn’t flip between time periods well.
- All around lazy!
Nope! Very not good. I don’t want to write sentences because I am very tired so... here’s a list of bad things about Possession:
- Aaron Eckhart is crazy miscast. Lol it’s hilarious that he plays a scholar of Victorian poetry. Also Roland is supposed to be average looking?
- The book is a 10/10 so it’s hard to adapt but they didn’t even add half the scenes???
- It’s too long at 100 minutes.
- No chemistry between either couples. Like no attempt at all.
- The Ash/Christabel love scenes made me so uncomfortable!!
- No visual appeal. Nothing lush or sumptuous about the Victorian scenes.
