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In 1959, Sir (Sir Anthony Hopkins) and his wife, (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 youths artistic daring, Sir Alfred decides his next movie will adapt the lurid horror novel, "Psycho", over everyones 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 Alfreds work, even as the novels inspiration haunts his dreams.
In 1959, Sir (Sir Anthony Hopkins) and his more often than not unheralded collaborator (Dame Helen Mirren), his wife, are revelling in their latest critical and box-office success: . Some in the business believe Sir Alfred, now at age sixty, should hang up his hat while he is still on top, while the brass at Paramount Pictures, to whom he is under contract for one more movie, just wants him to follow North by Northwest (1959) with something in a similar vein to make them money. Sir Alfred, however, wants to stir his creative juices, unlike he has felt he has done with any movie of late. Against the desires of others, including Alma, he is determined that that next project will be a horror movie, specifically an adaptation of a book, that project which will eventually become . For maximum impact, he wants to buy up whatever existing copies of the book are on the market, so that the public will have no idea what to expect with the movie when its released, and to have the set closed. While Alma does faithfully support him in this endeavor, (Richard Portnow), the President at Paramount Pictures, and (Kurtwood Smith) with the Censor Board, do not, the former who refuses to finance the movie, leading to Sir Alfred needing to find alternate financing or self-finance, which would result in financial ruin if the movie does not make money, and the latter threatening not to provide certification over the proposed shower scene. These are only two of the external obstacles beyond some on-set problems, including Sir Alfreds mutual dislike of co-star (Jessica Beil), due to their previous working situations. Through it all, there may be issues at home as Sir Alfred suspects Alma of having an affair with writer (Danny Huston), who wanted Sir Alfred to use his latest manuscript as the basis for that follow-up to North by Northwest (1959), while Alma, long having despaired over Sir Alfreds obsessions with his leading ladies, most specifically , just wants something in her life separate from him.
Anthony Hopkins
Alfred Hitchcock
Helen Mirren
Alma Reville
Scarlett Johansson
Janet Leigh
Danny Huston
Whitfield Cook
Toni Collette
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Michael Stuhlbarg
Lew Wasserman
Michael Wincott
Ed Gein
Jessica Biel
Vera Miles
James D'Arcy
Anthony Perkins
Richard Portnow
Barney Balaban
Kurtwood Smith
Geoffrey Shurlock
Ralph Macchio
Joseph Stefano
Kai Lennox
Hilton Green
Tara Summers
Rita Riggs
Wallace Langham
Saul Bass
Paul Schackman
Bernard Herrmann
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