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By Maria V (379) on 26 Mar 2010

Does an excellent job of balancing out the injustices of the system stuff with details of the patient's actual mental illness - it wouldn't…

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By Devon B (391) on 13 Mar 2010

Few performances have equaled the raw power of Olivia de Havilland's in The Snake Pit…

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By Manny C (1,251) on 22 Feb 2010

I guess I've seen this movie about 15 times? My husband is a bigtime De Havilland fan…

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By Bernard A (80) on 17 Feb 2010

In some ways actress Olivia de Havilland had something to do with the dismantling of the old studio system as it were…

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By Katie M (655) on 17 Feb 2010

A truly harrowing, disturbing, and honest look into mental illness and the archaic and sometimes brutal psychiatric system of the 1940's…

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By Olga C (70) on 16 Feb 2010

Excellent early look at mental illness and how there are often many causes for a person to lose themselves. a must see…

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By Ajmeet S (5) on 15 Feb 2010

Olivia de Havilland challenges herself beyond the romantic roles in swashbucklers and cute pie playing Virginia Stewart Cunningham who is a…

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By Luke W (568) on 10 Oct 2009

Olivia De Havilland stars as a mental patient, who is unsure of why she is at the asylum…

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By Wendy J (150) on 03 Sep 2009

EXCELLENT !! Groundbreaking cinematic look at mental illness from 1948. Olivia De Havilland in a stunning performance…

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By Bruce W (209) on 03 Sep 2009

EXCELLENT !! Groundbreaking cinematic look at mental illness from 1948. Olivia De Havilland in a stunning performance…

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By Tom C (719) on 03 Sep 2009

EXCELLENT !! Groundbreaking cinematic look at mental illness from 1948. Olivia De Havilland in a stunning performance…

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By Nik B (219) on 06 Aug 2009

Olivia de havilland's best performance to date…

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By Steve S (3,182) on 15 Jul 2009

***1/2 (out of four) Not many films in the 1940's dealt this seriously with heavy subjects such as the mentally ill…

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By Emily B (973) on 02 Jul 2009

I enjoyed this movie... Don't know what else to say…

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By Christine R (413) on 12 Jun 2009

An interesting movie about a woman who has a mental breakdown, and ends up in a mental ward in the 1940's…

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By Tammie C (8) on 21 Jan 2009

Great performance by Olivia De Havilland. It is hard to watch because of some of the things she goes through…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 05 Jan 2009

As one of Hollywood's first serious chronicles of life in an asylum, the film is uneven, containing some intelligent observations but also…

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By Ryan T (1,220) on 28 Aug 2008

This movie was such a breakthrough for its time because it helped psychiatric hospitals re-evaluate the way in which it treated its patients…

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By Michael L (2,383) on 25 Aug 2008

What a great hidden gem! this might be de havilland's best performance trumping even the letter. so this noir/melodrama is incredible…

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By Jeff B (2,998) on 13 Aug 2008

Well made film starring Olivia de Havilland as a woman in a mental institution…

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