Side Effects (2013) — Screenplay
An anxious wife seeks psychiatric help and pills to cope with her husband's impending release, but the treatment unravels into a deadly conspiracy.
- Written by
- Scott Z. Burns
- Genre
- Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Length
- 124 pages
Burns constructs a tightly coiled thriller where every character hides a motive and every scene reshapes the truth. Study how he uses clinical, precise dialogue and shifting point-of-view to keep the audience guessing, and how the first act's quiet domestic dread sets a trap that snaps shut with surgical force.
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