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Martha Marcy May Marlene

Cast

Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson, Hugh Dancy View All

Crew

Sean Durkin (Screenplay), Sean Durkin (Director) View All

Release: Oct. 21st, 2011

Runtime: 1 hour, 41 minutes

After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.

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0 Martha Marcy May Marlene

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TheMaster
The paranoia that builds from the early moments of Elizabeth Olsen's character escaping the cult permeate throughout the whole flick, a strong element of the film that requires no disinterested, negative comment, because I truly felt the paranoia that Martha did (in part because of Olsen's wonderful....

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