Amazon.com: Equus: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews, Eileen Atkins, Jenny Agutter, Kate Reid, John Wyman, Elva Mai Hoover, Ken James (II), Patrick Brymer, James Hurdle, Mark Parr, Karen Pearson, Sheldon Rybowski, David Gardner, Anita Van Hezewyck, Sufi Bukhari, Frazier Mohawk, Sidney Lumet: Video

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Equus (1977)

Starring: Richard Burton, Peter Firth Director: Sidney Lumet Rating

(43 customer reviews)

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Product Details

Actors: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews
Directors: Sidney Lumet
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Language: English
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Number of tapes: 1
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
VHS Release Date: December 1, 1993
Run Time: 137 minutes

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(43 customer reviews)

ASIN: 6301966449
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #20,532 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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A film adaptation of the famous play by Peter Shaffer, Equus stars Richard Burton (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1984) as Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist who takes on an unusual case: a young stable boy (Peter Firth, The Hunt for Red October) who, in a frenzy, has blinded six horses. Their sessions reveal that the boy has a quasi-religious fetish for horses and he rides them in the dead of night, experiencing an ecstasy unlike anything Dysart has ever known. Dysart begins to question: Is the pursuit of normalcy worth the loss of individual passions? Equus features a lot of hokum--its therapy scenes are absurd crescendos of revelation and insights. But its central question has substance, the direction is energetic, and the performances are powerful; Burton, handsome and haggard, brings a complex self-loathing to his role. Also featuring Jenny Agutter (Logan's Run) and Joan Plowright (Enchanted April). --Bret Fetzer