Details

Release year: 2012

Storyline

The relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored.

Top credits

Directors

Sacha Gervasi

Writers

Cast

Anthony Hopkins — Alfred Hitchcock
Helen Mirren — Alma Reville
Scarlett Johansson — Janet Leigh
Danny Huston — Whitfield Cook

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• Scenes set in Sir Alfred Hitchcock's Paramount Pictures suite of offices were filmed in Hitchcock's actual office on that studio's lot.

• Dame Helen Mirren, who plays Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville, had also met the real Sir Alfred Hitchcock when he approached her for a part as a murder victim in his penultimate movie, Frenzy (1972). Mirren turned down the role, a decision she later regretted.

• Sir Alfred Hitchcock biographer Patrick McGilligan noted several fictions created by the movie for artistic reasons. These included that in real life: Sir Alfred never re-mortgaged his house to help finance Psycho (1960)'s production. His wife Alma Reville never directed any scenes in the movie. His marriage was nowhere nearly as tumultuous as depicted. He never got involved during the production of the shower scene, and certainly never scared Janet Leigh.