Side Effects is a 2013 American crime thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Z. Burns. It stars Rooney Mara as a woman who is prescribed experimental drugs by psychiatrists (Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones) after her husband (Channing Tatum) is released from prison.
Side Effects was released in the United States on February 8, 2013, by Open Road Films. It received positive reviews and grossed $66 million worldwide.
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After her husband Martin completes a four-year prison sentence for insider trading, Bedford, New York socialite Emily Taylor drives into the wall of a parking garage in an apparent suicide attempt. Jonathan Banks, her assigned psychiatrist, prescribes a series of antidepressants, but none work. Jonathan contacts Emily's previous psychiatrist, Victoria Siebert, who runs her own practice in Connecticut and suggests a new experimental drug, Ablixa. The drug seems to help Emily but gives her sleepwalking episodes as a side effect.
One night, Emily stabs Martin to death while sleepwalking. Jonathan fights for Emily's acquittal in court. She pleads not guilty by reason of insanity and she is adjudicated not guilty on the condition that she remain in a psychiatric hospital until she is determined by Jonathan not to be a danger to herself or others. The negative publicity destroys Jonathan's reputation; his colleagues then assume negligence on his part and expel him from their practice, leaving him broke.
