Patrick Movie Review

Starring: Susan Penhaligon, Robert Helpmann, Rod Mullinar, Bruce Barry, Robert Thompson

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Based on a screenplay directly written for the screen by Everett De Roche (Link, Harlequin), PATRICK is an Australian movie directed by Richard Franklin in 1978. This picture won, in 1979, the Grand Prize of the Avoriaz Film Festival.

After having electrocuted his mother and her lover in the bathtub, Patrick has sunken into an irreversible coma. Three years later, he's still laying in a bed of Dr. Roget's private clinic.

When the young nurse Susan Penhaligon's is assigned to take care of him, nobody is suspecting that Patrick is totally aware of what's going on inside and ... outside the clinic. Soon, Susan remarks that Patrick, who's fallen in love with her, has developed special abilities such as telekinesis.

Helped by Dr. Wright, Susan will try to prove to the world that Patrick can still feel something without noticing that the young man is completely insane and jealous of the men who are approaching her. Soon, strange accidents happen to Dr. Wright and to Ed, Susan's husband.

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Plot

Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%

**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Mental/Magical powers focus Yes
kind of powers: - telekinetic (scifi)

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric: Yes - emotionally unstable
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (woman) medium/shoulderlng, wavy
Body type - average (woman)
Events of movie makes character more... - caring
Ethnicity/Nationality - Australian
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Hair color - white/grey
Hair style - (man) short/standard wavy
Body type - average build (man)
How much in movie? - 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality - Australian

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Has special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - telekinesis
Eccentric: Yes - mentally ill - obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 80%
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - (man) short/standard curly
Body type - average (man)
Ethnicity - Australian
Intelligence - Average Intelligence
Physical condition - missing body parts/abilities
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged

Setting
Earth setting: - 20th Century (1950-1970)
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Misc settings - mental hospital

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths
Tone of movie - fearful
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - kissing - actual description of sex - seeing nude male butt
Non-American film? Yes
What language? - English

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