
Movie
1991 · 1h 25m · Drama · Horror · Science Fiction
TMDB 6.0/10 (96 votes)
A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.
Directed by Todd Haynes
Box office $1M worldwide
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Todd HaynesDirector
Edith Meeksas Felicia Beacon ("Hero")MMillie Whiteas Millie Sklar ("Hero")BBuck Smithas Gregory Lazar ("Hero")AAnne Giotta as Evelyn McAlpert ("Hero")LLydia Lafleuras Sylvia Manning ("Hero")IIan Nemseras Sean White ("Hero")
Rob LaBelleas Jay Wete ("Hero")
Evan Dunskyas Dr. MacArthur ("Hero")MMarina Lutzas Hazel Lamprecht ("Hero")BBarry Cassidyas Officer Rilt ("Hero")
Richard Anthonyas Edward Comacho ("Hero")AAngela M. Schreiberas Florence Giddens ("Hero")JJustin Silversteinas Jake ("Hero")CChris Singhas Chris ("Hero")“Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.”
“Better be poisoned in one's own blood then to be poisoned in one's principle.”
“Son, I don't have money even to buy poison. Please help –”
“All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison.”
“Vipera Cappadocem nocitura mormordit; at illa Gustato peril sanguine Cappadocis.”
“All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them: but if it happen to light within their chawes or mouth, especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present death.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
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