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Equus

Equus

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 16, 1977

Runtime

2h 17m

Genres

Drama, Mystery, Thriller

User Score

70%

Original Title

Equus

Production Companies

United Artists, Persky-Bright Productions, Winkast Film Productions

Director

Sidney Lumet

Description

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.