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Title: Every Breath You Take (2021)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Casey Affleck | ... | Philip | |
| Michelle Monaghan | ... | Grace | |
| Sam Claflin | ... | James | |
| Veronica Ferres | ... | Dr. Vanessa Fanning | |
| India Eisley | ... | Lucy | |
| Emily Alyn Lind | ... | Daphne | |
| Hiro Kanagawa | ... | Dr. Toth | |
| Vincent Gale | ... | Stuart Fanning | |
| Lilly Krug | ... | Lilly Fanning | |
| Daniel Bacon | ... | Police Captain | |
| Brenden Sunderland | ... | Evan | |
| Kheon Clarke | ... | Muscular Orderly | |
| Christopher Logan | ... | Patient #1 | |
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Nicki Steudel | ... | Patient #2 |
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Soheila Vatandoost | ... | Patient #3 |
Every Breath You Take is a searing psychological thriller about a psychiatrist (Casey Affleck), whose career is thrown into jeopardy when his patient takes her own life. When he invites his patient's surviving brother (Sam Claflin) into his home to meet his wife (Michelle Monaghan) and daughter, his family life is suddenly torn apart. Written by Vertical Entertainment
Grace (Michelle Monaghan) loses her son in a car accident. Her stepdaughter Lucy (India Eisley) gets kicked out of school for drug use. Her psychiatrist husband Philip (Casey Affleck) is treating troubled patient Daphne (Emily Alyn Lind) in an unconventional way. When she commits suicide, her brother James (Sam Claflin) is devastated.
The cast is A minus but the writing is C plus at best. There is too much filler which slows the thriller down. More than anything, this movie keeps going back to two frustrating tropes. The first one is understandable but is annoying nevertheless. Basically, one character dares another by offering to do the exact right thing. The other character would get embarrassed and not do that exact right thing. It's meant to build tension but it's too obvious and it keeps repeating. The other move is the characters not communicating with each other. Most of the problems can be solved if they would just tell each other what's going on. They keep not telling the whole story and problems ensue. It's a bad writing device and the movie keeps doing it. All of it makes this a rather frustrating thriller.