7.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Spellbound (1945)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.8
Overview
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's central focus on individual psychological healing through psychoanalysis and the resolution of personal trauma is largely apolitical, neither explicitly promoting nor critiquing specific political ideologies.
The movie features traditional casting practices prevalent in the mid-20th century, with a predominantly white cast in all significant roles. Its narrative focuses on psychological themes without engaging in any critique or negative portrayal of traditional identities.
Secondary
Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound is a psychological thriller focused on amnesia and psychoanalysis. The narrative centers on heterosexual relationships and psychological drama, with no discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes present in the storyline or character arcs.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 1945 film "Spellbound" is an adaptation of the novel "The House of Dr. Edwardes." A review of the main characters and their portrayals indicates no instances where a character's established gender from the source material was changed in the film.
The film "Spellbound" (1945) is an adaptation of the novel "The House of Dr. Edwardes." There is no evidence that any character, canonically or historically established as one race in the source material, was portrayed as a different race in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.5
7.4
Critic Ratings
8.6
7.8
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