Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.
10-02-2011
1h 42m
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Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Steve McQueen
Production:
HanWay Films, See-Saw Films, Lipsync Productions, Alliance Films, Film4 Productions, UK Film Council
Revenue:
$3,909,002
Budget:
$6,500,000
Key Crew
Stunt Driver:
Declan Mulvey
Screenplay:
Abi Morgan
Producer:
Emile Sherman
Producer:
Iain Canning
Head of Production:
Tracey Josephs
Locations and Languages
Country:
GB
Filming:
CA; GB
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender (born April 2, 1977) is a German-Irish actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, he was listed at number nine on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
Born in Germany to a mother from Northern Ireland and a German father, Fassbender moved to Ireland at age two. He made his feature film debut in 300 (2006). Early roles include in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and the Sky One fantasy drama Hex (2004–2005). Fassbender first came to prominence playing Bobby Sandsin Hunger (2008), for which he won a British Independent Film Award. Subsequent roles include the 2009 films Fish Tank and Inglourious Basterds and the 2011 films Jane Eyre and A Dangerous Method. He gained mainstream success for playing Erik Lehnsherr/MMagneto in X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), and X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and David 8 and Walter One in Prometheus (2012) and its sequel, Alien: Covenant (2017).
For his portrayal of a sex addict in Steve McQueen's drama Shame (2011), Fassbender won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and was nominated for the Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards. His performance as Edwin Epps in 12 Years a Slave (2013) earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also starred in The Counsellor (2013), Frank (2014), Macbeth, and Steve Jobs (both 2015). Fassbender received another Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of the title role in the latter. After a hiatus, he starred in the action thriller film The Killer (2023).
Fassbender began competing in auto racing in 2017 with the Ferrari Challenge. As of 2023, he races in the European Le Mans Series, driving for Proton Competition. He married Swedish actress Alicia Vikander in 2017.
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Carey Hannah Mulligan (born May 28, 1985) is an English actress. She has received numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award.
Mulligan made her professional acting debut on stage in the 2004 Kevin Elyot play Forty Winks at the Royal Court Theatre. Her film debut came with a supporting role in the romantic drama Pride & Prejudice (2005), followed by roles in television, including the drama series Bleak House (2005) and the television film Northanger Abbey (2007). She also played Sally Sparrow in the Doctor Who episode "Blink". Mulligan made her Broadway debut in the 2008 revival of the Anton Chekhov play The Seagull, which earned her an Ian Charleson Commendation Award.
Mulligan's breakthrough role came as a 1960s schoolgirl in the coming-of-age drama film An Education (2009), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and gained her first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She continued as an established actor, with roles in the dystopian romance Never Let Me Go (2010), action drama Drive (2011), which earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, erotic drama Shame (2011), romantic drama The Great Gatsby (2013), and the black comedy-drama Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). In 2015, Mulligan was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway revival of David Hare's Skylight. In 2018, she starred in the Netflix limited series Collateral and Paul Dano's acclaimed drama film Wildlife. For her portrayal of a vigilante in the thriller Promising Young Woman (2020), Mulligan received widespread praise and a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
James Badge Dale (born May 1, 1978) is an American actor who starred in the AMC drama series Rubicon. He is most famous for his role of Chase Edmunds in the third season of 24 and Robert Leckie in the HBO miniseries The Pacific.
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Nicole Beharie is an American actress. She is best known for her starring roles in films such as the drama American Violet (2008), the psychological drama Shame (2011), the biographical sports drama 42 (2013), and the independent drama Miss Juneteenth (2020). From 2013 to 2016, she starred in the Fox supernatural drama series Sleepy Hollow.
Hannah Ware (born c. 1982) is an English model/actress. She is known for her roles in the films Cop Out and Shame. She is currently portraying Emma Kane, the estranged addict daughter of Chicago mayor Tom Kane, in the STARZ series Boss.
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Spanish actress born and raised in Madrid. Marta fulfilled her dream of living in New York and studying theater, when she graduated from NYU with a double major in Acting and Art History. Since then, she has been fighting to make room for herself in Hollywood, slowly but steadily. She started working Off-Broadway in New York City and eventually landed roles in TV shows like Law and Order SVU and films such as The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Shame and most recently Shazam!
Amy Hargreaves was born on January 27, 1970 in Rockville Center, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Shame (2011), Michael Clayton (2007) and Brainscan (1994). She has been married to Renaud Selmès since August 7, 1999. They have two children.
Anna Rose is known for High Maintenance, Dark Night and Shame. Born near Rochester, NY Anna Rose is of Eastern European Jewish and Welsh descent. She moved to New York City to pursue her dreams at age 17, where she attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts, via the Atlantic Theater Company and the Experimental Theater Wing, after which she studied under Uta Hagen's protege Deborah Hedwall and in Los Angeles with Sandra Seacat, John Markland, and Risa Bramon Garcia. Anna Rose is known for an eclectic body of work, from off beat comedy to hyper-realistic drama.
