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Shirley
Directed by
Josephine Decker
Produced by Elisabeth Moss, Christine Vachon, Jeffrey Soros, David Hinojosa, Sue Naegle, Sarah Gubbins, and Simon Horsman
Screenplay by Sarah Gubbins Based on the novel by Susan Scarf Merrell
Produced by Elisabeth Moss, Christine Vachon, Jeffrey Soros, David Hinojosa, Sue Naegle, Sarah Gubbins, and Simon Horsman
Screenplay by Sarah Gubbins Based on the novel by Susan Scarf Merrell
With:
Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg, Logan Lerman, Victoria Pedretti, Robert Wuhl, and Paul O'Brien
Cinematography:
Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
Editing: David Barker
Music: Tamar-kali
Editing: David Barker
Music: Tamar-kali
Runtime:
107 min
Release Date: 05 June 2020
Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1
Color: Color
Release Date: 05 June 2020
Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1
Color: Color
Twitter Capsule:
This imagined encounter between author Shirley Jackson and a fictional couple who live with her and her philandering academic husband aims to shed light the novelist's interior and the inspiration for her 2nd book Hangsaman but results in a dull, anachronistic exercise in gothic tropes and psychological gamesmanship.