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Possession

Year:
Duration:
102 min
Genres:
Romance | Drama | Mystery
IMDB rate:
6.4
Director:
Neil LaBute
Awards:
1 nomination
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2002-08-30
Filming Locations: Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, St. James's, London, England, UK
Earnings
Budget: $25,000,000
Opening Weekend: $1,575,214 (USA) (18 August 2002)
Gross: $10,103,647 (USA) (13 October 2002)
Cast
Actor
Character
Gwyneth Paltrow
Maud Bailey
Aaron Eckhart
Roland Michell
Jeremy Northam
Randolph Henry Ash
Jennifer Ehle
Christabel LaMotte
Lena Headey
Blanche Glover
Holly Aird
Ellen Ash
Toby Stephens
Fergus Wolfe
Trevor Eve
Cropper
Tom Hickey
Blackadder
Georgia Mackenzie
Paola
Tom Hollander
Euan
Graham Crowden
Sir George
Anna Massey
Lady Bailey
Craig Crosbie
Hildebrand
Christopher Good
Crabb-Robinson
Elodie Frenck
Sabine
Victoria Bensted
Woman in Hotel
Jonty Stephens
Shop Owner
Alexi Kaye Campbell
Auction Director
Hugh Simon
Librarian
Richard Heffer
Lord Lytton
Felicity Brangan
Ash's Maid
Holly Earl
May Bailey
Meg Wynn Owen
Mrs. Lees
Roger Hammond
Professor Spear
Jeanne Marine
University Secretary
Henry Ian Cusick
Toby Byng (uncredited)
Ray Donn
University's Professor (uncredited)
Mark Hanney
Aristorcrat scholar (uncredited)
Barbara Pierson
Mrs. Cammish (uncredited)
Natalie Stevenson
Kate's Assistant (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The character names "Maud Bailey" and "Christabel LaMotte" refer to a special form of castle, the Motte-and-Bailey, widespread in the 11th/12th century.
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Ralph Fiennes was offered the role of Randolph Henry Ash.
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A large part of Church Street in Whitby was dressed to give it the appearance of a 18/19th century fishing town. Gwyneth Paltrow insisted that the whole place was screened off so that she was not visible to the small crowd of on-lookers. Jeremy Northam, however, took time to go and talk about the film to the bystanders. Miss Paltrow also turned down an offer from the local dignitaries to meet the mayor and be shown around the town. The Whitby Gazette carried a massive banner headline declaring "PALTROW SNUBS WHITBY".
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Goofs
During the love scene between Christabel and Ash, the close up of Jennifer Ehle and Jeremy Northam kissing, you can see Ehle's ears are double pierced. Victorian women did have pierced ears but would not have had double piercings.
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Everyone was handling rare, old documents with their bare hands. Anyone doing this kind of research would know to wear gloves to protect the fragile paper.
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When Maude is in her car waiting for Roland to come out of the museum, her window is down. When he gets in the car and they begin talking, it is rolled up.
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Quotes
Fergus: Mitchell's late again?
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Maude: [they are standing on rocks in a river looking at a waterfall that Maude recalls in one of Christabell's poems that describes a cave behind the waterfall. Upon sharing that with Roland, he immediately starts taking his clothes off] I know this is an awfully repressed sort of English thing to say, but what the hell are you doing?
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Roland Michell: Don't worry about me. I'm kind of a brush and flush kinda guy.
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Photos from cast
Kate O'Toole Shelley Conn
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