Based on the novel by Valerie Martin, this gothic suspense story offers a fresh perspective on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror tale Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by presenting the material from a different viewpoint -- that of Mary Reilly (Julia Roberts), an Irish servant girl who has come to work ...more
MPAA Rating: R | Year: 1996 | Running Time: 108 minutes
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$8.99MARY REILLY / (WS)
Although it bombed at the box office and put a dent in Julia Roberts' career, Mary Reilly is actually a pretty effective piece of contemporary Grand Guignol. Given that the audience probably knows the general outline of -Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Christopher Hampton fashion Valerie Martin's literary retelling into a baroque mood piece in which Roberts, bereft of blush and in need of a good eyebrow plucking, gets to employ her cavernous eyes and gawky voice ...more
- Julia Roberts - Mary Reilly
- John Malkovich - Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
- Glenn Close - Mrs. Farraday
- George Cole - Mr. Poole
- Kathy Staff - Mrs. Kent
- Linda Bassett - Mary's Mother
- Moya Brady - Young Woman
- Michael Sheen - Bradshaw
- Emma Griffiths-Malin - Young Whore
- Sasha Hanau - Young Mary
- Julia Hagen - Farraday Girl
- Ellie Crockett - Farraday Girl
- Mimi Potworowska - Farraday Girl
- Stephen Boxer - Inspector
- Stephen Frears - Director
- Lynne Pleshette - Executive Producer
- Nancy Graham Tanen - Producer
- Ned Tanen - Producer
- Norma Heyman - Producer
- Christopher Hampton - Screenwriter
- Valerie Martin - Book Author
- John King - Art Director
- Michael Lamont - Art Director
- Jim Morahan - Art Director
- Leo Davis - Casting
- Juliet Taylor - Casting
- Iain Smith - Co-producer
- Consolata Boyle - Costume Designer









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