Possession

In Neil LaBute's film adaptation of A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning 1990 novel, Aaron Eckhart (who has starred in all of LaBute's films) plays Roland Michell, an American academic researcher, working in London, who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry ...more

One of the marks and pleasures of a talented filmmaker is in the works that tend to break away from their established genre and stretch their skills in a direction previously unexplored. Neil LaBute's Possession fits neatly into that category as it provides the writer/director with some variations on his previous work. It's the second film he's made not based on his own original work, the source material instead coming from the popular novel by A.S. Byatt. Also, there are elements of period ...more