Hitchcock (2012) Details

Plot Summary

In 1959, Sir Alfred Hitchcock (Sir Anthony Hopkins) and his wife, Alma Reville (Dame Helen Mirren), are at the top of their creative game as filmmakers amidst disquieting insinuations about it being time to retire. To recapture his youth's artistic daring, Sir Alfred decides his next movie will adapt the lurid horror novel, "Psycho", over everyone's misgivings. Unfortunately, as Sir Alfred self-finances and labors on this movie, Alma finally loses patience with his roving eye and controlling habits with his actresses. When an ambitious friend lures her to collaborate on a work of their own, the resulting marital tension colors Sir Alfred's work, even as the novel's inspiration haunts his dreams.

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Release Date

USA

(AFI Fest)

2012-11-01

Canada

(limited)

2012-11-23

USA

(limited)

2012-11-23

Also Known As (A.K.A.)

Hitchcock

(Original title)

Hitchcock, el maestro del suspenso

Argentina

Hitchcock

Australia

Certification

Argentina

No data

13

Australia

No data

M

Brazil

No data

12

Sensitive content guide

A woman sees through a window a man and another woman kissing on the floor of a cabin, he is bare-chested and the woman is wearing a bra and girdle or slip. They stop when they realize they are being watched.

A husband and his wife kiss a few times.

A man and a woman kiss in bed (during a movie shoot); he's bare-chested and she wears a bra and slip that reveal cleavage, bare shoulders and her bare back.

A man and a woman (not his wife) move close together and touch each other's hands as if they are going to kiss (they are interrupted).

A woman kisses man on the cheek.

A man looks through a peephole in his office and we see a woman undressing (we see her wearing a bra that reveals cleavage and bare shoulders). She then removes her bra; topless nudity is implied.

A woman uses a suggestive hand gesture.

A woman in a shower scene in a movie is shown from the upper chest up (we see her bare shoulders and upper chest).

A husband is shown in a bathtub covered to the mid-chest by water while his wife dresses nearby (we see her wearing a bra and slip that reveal her bare abdomen and cleavage and part of her bare leg as she pulls on stockings).

A woman wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage and bare shoulders.

A woman wears a swimsuit in a couple of scenes (we see cleavage, bare shoulders, arms and legs).

The camera lingers on a woman's clothed buttocks as she walks through a restaurant.

A female corpse is placed in an empty bathtub and we see her wearing a bra and girdle that reveal cleavage and bare abdomen.

A man makes a flirtatious, suggestive remark to a woman in a crowd.

A woman says of a man, "I doubt he has had a climax in years."

A husband watches his wife dressing.

A woman talks about a perfume named "My Sin."

A husband tells his wife, "I smell the scent of sex all over you."

A man becomes angry with his wife and accuses her of being "smitten" with another man.

A man asks his wife if she is having an affair with another man and she becomes angry.

A woman looks through a film viewer and tells a man, "You imp, you've got nudity in there" and the man replies, "Well her breasts were rather large."

A woman points at herself and says that from the waist up, she is not exactly boyish (suggesting that she is well-endowed).

A reference is made to protecting viewers from filth and indecency.

There is some crude comments but the sexual content is not strong.

We see a fire burning in a field and two men with shovels are digging in the area; one man strikes the other man in the head with the shovel and the man fall to the ground as a narrator talks about "brother killing brother" and that the murderer convinced the authorities that the dead man died from smoke asphyxiation.

A man imagines another man climbing into bed with his mother's corpse (we see the woman's face discolored and decayed).

A man imagines another man dragging the dead body of a woman up a flight of stairs (we hear the thumping of the body hitting several stairs and we see blood on the head of the corpse) and then being placed in an empty bathtub; the man then imagines the corpse lunging toward him and he is startled awake.

A man imagines another man crying and running to another room when he hears police sirens blaring.

We see a black-&-white photograph of a corpse, headless and cut in half vertically, as it is passed around a gathering and people, who react with disgust.

A man shaves another man using a straight razor and nicks his neck (we see a spot of blood appear).

On a movie set, a man grabs a knife away from an actor and slashes the blade toward an actress in a shower (in order to demonstrate how he wanted the scene to look); the actress screams and appears genuinely frightened and the man imagines several other people in the actress' place.

A woman screams when she sees a dummy in her dressing room (looking like a dead character in a movie she is filming).

A man collapses on the floor and lies motionless as others try to attend to him.

A man becomes angry and pounds a filter net on top of a swimming pool several times.

A man is angry and yells at another man and pounds on his door, to no avail.

A man yells at his dogs and says "Naughty boys."

A husband becomes angry with his wife and accuses her of being "smitten" with another man.

A man talks about being "guilty" all his life and that as a boy he had wished that his father would "drop dead and he did."

A man tells a woman that her writing is "still born."

A man talks about 10 female heads with the tops sawed off and the lips being used as light string pulls, being found in a mass murderer's home.

A woman reads an excerpt from "Psycho" and says, "The blade cut off her scream and her head."

A man jokes about making the "Diary of Anne Frank" into a movie and that she'd spend the whole movie looking for the corpse he hid in the attic.

A man speaks about heinous crimes.

A husband watches his wife dressing and she remarks, "They had their eyes gouged out for lesser crimes."

A man makes reference to "the boy who dug up his own mother."

A man and a woman talk about "killing off your leading lady."

A man says, "They put me in a coffin and now they are nailing down the lid."

During a meeting with a censor board, a man says there can be no "knife penetrating a woman's flesh or suggestion of nudity."

A man says, "All men are potential murderers."

Awards

BAFTA Awards (2013)

BAFTA Film Award 2013

Nominated

Best Make Up/Hair

Julie Hewett Martin Samuel Howard Berger

Academy Awards, USA (2013)

Oscar 2013

Nominated

Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling

Howard Berger Peter Montagna Martin Samuel