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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
History
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Release:
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Director:
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David Lynch
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Actors:
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Freddie Jones,
Wendy Hiller,
Michael Elphick,
Lesley Dunlop,
Hannah Gordon,
Helen Ryan,
Pat Gorman,
Claire Davenport,
Anthony Hopkins,
John Hurt,
Anne Bancroft,
John Gielgud,
John Standing,
Dexter Fletcher,
Phoebe Nicholls
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Duration:
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123 min.
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Rating:
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(8.4/10)70.5
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Plot Summary:
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Based on the dependable tale of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he departed after years spent as a side-show freak.
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Tags:
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Elephant Man, The
Sensitive fable about Victorian England's most renowned "freak" from David Lynch. Black and white widescreen provides a sumptuous backdrop to excellent turns from a youthful Anthony Hopkins and an unrecognisable John Hurt. You will weep
In unsympathetic Victorian England, John Merrick (Hurt) has been abused since childhood and forced into a freakshow because of his appalling deformity. Frederick Treves (Hopkins), a surgeon at the London Hospital, removes Merrick from the dingy sideshow and treats his bronchitis. Although Treves initially thinks - hopes - Merrick is no more than an imbecile and exhibits him to his fellow doctors, he is essentially a more humane keeper than Bytes (Jones), the drunk who had presented Merrick in the freakshow.
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