Equus
7/10
Rating
137 min
Runtime
1977
Release Year
Sidney Lumet
Director
Cast
Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews, Colin Blakely
Quick Synopsis
In Hampshire, England, psychiatrist Martin Dysart is assigned to examine Alan Strang, a seventeen-year-old stable boy who has brutally blinded six horses in a local stable using a metal spike. Alan comes from a family with a strict, outspoken father who is actually quite timid inside, and a gentle, religious mother. As Dysart delves into Alan's troubled mind to understand the reasons behind his violent act, he also confronts his own personal struggles and doubts.
Detailed Synopsis of Equus
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
