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Bug is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Friedkin released in USA on 25 may 2007 with Ashley Judd
Bug (2007)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 25 may 2007
Length 1h43
Directed by William Friedkin
OriginUSA
Themes Films about animals, Théâtre, Natural horror films, Films about spiders, Films about insects, Films based on plays
Rating60%
Bug is a 2006 American psychological horror film directed by William Friedkin. It stars Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon and Harry Connick, Jr.. The screenplay by Tracy Letts is based on his 1996 play of the same name in which a woman holed up in a rural Oklahoma motel becomes involved with a paranoid man obsessed with conspiracy theories about bugs and the government. Bug debuted at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival before being purchased by Lions Gate Films, who released the film the following year in May 2007.
Friedkin and Letts similarly collaborated on the 2011 film Killer Joe.
Synopsis
Agnes White is a waitress at a gay bar living in a run-down motel in rural Oklahoma. Unable to move on from the disappearance of her son some years previously, she engages in drug and alcohol binges with her lesbian friend, R.C. Lately, she has been plagued by silent telephone calls that she believes are being made by her abusive ex-husband, Jerry Goss, who has recently been released from prison.Actors
Ashley Judd
(Agnes White)
Michael Shannon
(Peter Evans)
Viola Lynn Collins
(R. C.)
Brían F. O'Byrne
(Dr. Sweet)
Harry Connick
(Jerry Goss)
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