Freud's Last Session

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Freud's Last Session

PG-13

2024

2h 2m

Drama

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On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds on the twentieth century, C.S. LEWIS and SIGMUND FREUD converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. FREUD'S LAST SESSION interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud's study on a dynamic journey.

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Critics Consensus

Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode are a tremendously talented pair, but Freud's Last Session is too scattered and thinly written to take full advantage of their efforts.

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Mark Kermode

Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)

06/21/2024

Here, the only overdose that's been taken, it's an overdose of acting pills.

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Helen O'Hara

Empire Magazine

06/14/2024

2/5

It’s not the fault of either star, but the half-baked script makes this an unsatisfyingly thin exploration of the weighty themes it seeks to cover.

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Linda Marric

The Sun (UK)

06/14/2024

4/5

Hopkins and Goode give two understated yet im- pressively precise performances.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

Aug 7

Employing hackneyed televisual tropes like a character’s monologue turning into the narration of the flashback to what he’s describing, Brown appears solely interested in fashioning what might be described as a sort of “book on video.”

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Sammie Purcell

Rough Draft Atlanta

07/22/2025

“Freud’s Last Session” feels fundamentally bound by its playlike structure, and the attempts to make it cinematic are riddled with visual and storytelling cliches.

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Rick Burin

iNews.co.uk

01/16/2025

2/5

A meeting between Freud and CS Lewis should crackle with energy - but in Matthew Brown's film it merely fizzles.

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Ethan Ashton

12/14/2024

This movie was slightly boring

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DianeW

02/04/2024

This is a slow moving movie that is deep. Not what you would expect a movie to be. Save your money and wait for it to streaming at home.

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David krisy

01/29/2024

Wonderful movie must see

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Sue

01/28/2024

Made me want to learn more about their childhoods and biographies and learn more about Anna Freud.

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Jeffrey J

01/28/2024

Excellent script. Hopkins brilliant as usual.

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Aron B

01/26/2024

Thoroughly enjoyable film. The acting is wonderful. The story is great. The production is first rate. The film really takes you back to the past where you can see these two great thinkers interacting in a genuine way about what might be the most important question of all: does God exist? Don't get me wrong: I like a good action movie or comedy as much as anyone else, but I do wish there were more movies like this one.

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Synopsis

On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds on the twentieth century, C.S. LEWIS and SIGMUND FREUD converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. FREUD'S LAST SESSION interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud's study on a dynamic journey.

Director: Matthew Brown
Producer: Alan Greisman, Hannah Leader, Tristan Lynch, Rick Nicita, Aoife O'Sullivan, Meg Thomson
Screenwriter: Mark St. Germain, Matthew Brown
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co: Subotica, Last Session Productions
Rating: PG-13 (Smoking|Sexual Material|Some Bloody/Violent Images|Thematic Material)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 19, 2024, Wide
Box Office (Gross USA): $905.6K
Runtime: 2h 2m