Bug
Leaving December 31
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1h 41m
Directed by William Friedkin • 2006 • United States, Germany
Starring Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Lynn Collins
Director William Friedkin received some of the best reviews of his later career for this searing psychological thriller, a relentless plunge into nightmare delusion adapted by playwright Tracy Letts from his own off-Broadway hit. Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon deliver frighteningly committed performances as a pair of lost souls—she a lonely waitress, he a troubled military veteran convinced that the government has infected his body with bugs—who, together in a claustrophobic motel room, begin a terrifying mutual decent into paranoia that will take them to the edge of madness.
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