Side Effects’ may include intrigue, disappointment
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- Open Road Films
- THIS DEPRESSION ISN’T SO GREAT: Rooney Mara copes with ‘Side Effects’
The first third of Stephen Soderbergh’s thriller Side Effects almost resembles Invasion of the Body Snatchers, only with pills, not pods, subtly reshaping society. Side Effects’ perspective on Prozac Nation provides some trenchant commentary about a contemporary trend, but once the film’s initial exhilaration wears off, it goes through the motions as a conventional noir knockoff.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’s Rooney Mara plays Emily Taylor, a young woman who grapples with mixed feelings over her husband’s (Channing Tatum) release from prison for insider trading. Rather than enjoy the restoration of her marriage, Emily feels increasingly depressed, anxious and fragile, culminating with an act of self-inflicted violence.