Unsane 2018

     Sawyer Valentini has moved away from her home town after the death of her father.  She has been stalked by a man, she needs to get away to a new area with new people and a new job.  Her mother is concerned about Sawyer and they try to talk on the phone every day.  Sawyer occasionally sees the face of her stalker in other men?  She makes an appointment with a counselor at Highland Creek Behavioral Center.  This starts to go bad when she learns she will be kept for seven days against her will.  She calls the police to be released but they see her signed release form and they aren’t able to do anything.  She will stay for seven days and she is forced to take daily medication.  She tried telling everyone that she wants to leave!!

     I was surprised that a person can be signed into a treatment facility after just meeting with a counselor?  One of the other patients tells Sawyer that the Center wants to keep her until her medical insurance refuses to pay anymore.  It doesn’t matter if she is really having enough mental instability to be kept for an extended period.  Once the money runs out, the patient has had a miracle cure!!  If Sawyer tries to protest her treatment, she is given more medication and put into restraints if they seem to be warranted.   3 ½* (I liked this movie) 

98 min, Thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh with Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Juno Temple, Jay Pharoah, Sarah Stiles, Marc Kudisch, Amy Irving, Colin Woodell, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Lynda Mauze, Azch Cherry, Polly McKie, Raul Castillo, Michael Mihm, Robert Kelly.

Note:  Imdb 6.4 out of 10, 80% critic 57% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3*, Amazon 3.3* out of 5* with 242 reviews, Metacritic 63 out of 100 with 45 critics 6.3 out of 10 with 91 reviews, The Telegraph 2* of 5*, Common Sense Media3* out of 5*, age 16+, 2* positive, 3* role models, 4* violence, 1* sex, 4* language, 3* drinking, drugs, smoking.

Special Note:  Filmed in Summit Park Hospital, Pomona, New York; Mamaroneck Ave, Broadlawn Apartments and The Brazen Fox, White Plains, New York.  This film was shot entirely with an iPhone 7 Plus camera in 4KI using the app FILMiC Pro, shot in just 10 days and the budget was $1.2 million.  Worldwide gross was $12.3 million for a profit of $11.1 million minus production budget and advertising.

411.1 million.   The Summit Park Hospital was used for filming since it recently closed.  Juno Temple plays Violet and this is Juno’s real middle name.