Psycho

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R,2hrs 0min

Genres:

Action,Drama

Released:

June 16, 1960

Distributor:

Universal Studios

Starring:

Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles ... More

Synopsis: In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime liaison in a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major studio film in 1960), Psycho announced that it was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that score ... Full Synopsis

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	Mark Deming, AMG Review In a decade in which what was acceptable onscreen would change more radically than at any other time in history, Psycho was in some ways the first shot in the battle for freer filmmaking in the 1960s. Few movies of its time were more direct and unapologetic in their violence or served it up with such disorienting abruptness or tongue-in-cheek wit. With its casual depiction of sex outside marriage, ... Read Review

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	Anthony Perkins Norman Bates Janet Leigh Marion Crane Vera Miles Lila Crane John Gavin Sam Loomis

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