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Bug [Special Edition]

Actor(s): Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Lynn Collins, Brian F. O'Byrne, Harry Connick, Jr.
Director(s): William Friedkin
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: R
Content Advisory: Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drug Content
Movie Release: 2006
DVD Release: 09/25/2007
Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
Audio Tracks: English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 41 mins
Studio: Lionsgate
Total Copies: 53
Genres: Thriller, Psychological Thriller

DVD Synopsis

Academy Award-winning Exorcist director William Friedkin scuttles deep into the darkest recesses of the traumatized human psyche with this tale of a lonely bartender haunted by the long-ago disappearance of her young son, and the paranoia that emerges when she enters into a tentative relationship with a deeply disturbed drifter. Adapted from the off-Broadway play by Tracy Letts, Bug centers on Agnes (Ashley Judd), who tends bar alongside pal R.C. (Lynn Collins), and has recently moved into a shoddy roadside motel in hopes of avoiding her menacing and recently paroled ex-husband, Jerry (Harry Connick Jr.). Upon making the acquaintance of subdued former soldier Peter (Michael Shannon, repeating his stage role), a veteran of the first Gulf War, Agnes finally senses that things are looking up. Quietly charming despite his melancholy aura, Peter soon reveals to Agnes that he contracted a "bug" while serving in the Middle East, and that it may have been deliberately administered as part of a secret military medical experiment. Convinced that the microscopic insects are quickly multiplying just under the surface of his skin and that they have now infected Agnes as well, Peter soon descends into a psychotic rage as he resorts to increasingly desperate measures to purge himself of the offending subdermal arthropods. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Actors

Ashley Judd - Agnes White
Michael Shannon - Peter Evans
Lynn Collins - R.C.
Brian F. O'Byrne - Doctor Sweet
Harry Connick, Jr. - Jerry Goss

Member Movie Reviews

Steven H. (sehamilton) from BIRMINGHAM, AL wrote on 7/30/2009...

I was fooled by the movie's marketing campaign. Commercials and trailers tauted it as director Friedkin's "return" to horror (he directed The Exorcist). The only horror connected with this film is how atrocious it is. It ranks as one of the two worst movies in my memory (the other being The Door in the Floor). The acting is hammy and over-the-top. Ashley Judd does nothing less than embarrass herself in this one. Unbelieveably bad. Spare yourself a credit and any regrets; don't order this, don't rent this, don't waste 2 hours of your life if it ever appears on t.v.