New ‘Side Effects’ Trailer is Fraught With Prescription Drug Paranoia

Director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns have spent the last couple years making genre films with prestige casts to explore modern anxieties in a unique manner. The Informant! tackled fears of impotence and mediocrity through the story of a guy who envisions himself as a powerful insder agent.Contagion charted paranoia about the ever-closer proximity in which we live with others, usinga tagline that warned Dont talk to anyone. Dont touch anyone.

Now the two finish out an informal anxiety trilogy withSide Effects. The filmwraps a thriller structure around a look at the insidious pharmaceutical industry, and the ways in which we rely on it, often blindly. A short new trailer for the film dropped today. Its a brief edit, just a minute long, but the effect is much bigger than the short running time as a husband and wife (Channing Tatum and Rooney Mara) deal with the fallout of the womans use of medication. More than a few things are obscured in this trailer, but theres enough here to get my attention.

Side Effects hits on February 8. Apple has this trailer.

SIDE EFFECTS is a provocative thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emilys psychiatrist (Jude Law)intended to treat anxietyhas unexpected side effects.

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New ‘Side Effects’ Trailer is Fraught With Prescription Drug Paranoia