
Sawyer Valentini is a troubled woman who moves away from home to escape a stalker. Sawyer finds she is still triggered by interactions with men as a result of her experiences. She makes an appointment with a counselor at Highland Creek Behavioral Center. At her appointment, she unknowingly signs a release voluntarily committing herself to a 24-hour stay. She calls the police but they do nothing when they see the signed release. After physical altercations with a patient and a... (Full plot summary below)
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Sawyer Valentini is a troubled woman who moves away from home to escape a stalker. Sawyer finds she is still triggered by interactions with men as a result of her experiences. She makes an appointment with a counselor at Highland Creek Behavioral Center. At her appointment, she unknowingly signs a release voluntarily committing herself to a 24-hour stay. She calls the police but they do nothing when they see the signed release. After physical altercations with a patient and a staff member, Dr. Hawthorne says she is being kept for seven more days. Another patient, Nate Hoffman, gives Sawyer an introduction to the place. Highland Creek is running a scheme to milk health insurance claims for profit. They trick people into voluntarily committing themselves as long as the patients' insurance companies continue to pay; when insurance claims run out, the patient is "cured". One day, Sawyer sees David Strine, her stalker, working as an orderly under the assumed name George Shaw. She has an outburst and is restrained. Her outbursts result in the repeated use of restraints and sedation..
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| Sunday Independent (Ireland)Hilary A WhiteDevilish fun that comes with a welcome side-order of B-movie ridiculousness. |
| MovieFreak.comSara Michelle FettersSteven Soderbergh's Unsane is a down and dirty psychological horror-thriller that's as grungy and as unhinged as it is focused and intelligent. |
| Fresh FictionCourtney HowardWith a deliberately off-putting aesthetic and a questionable narrative with very little satisfying return, this is an experiment that implodes before the resolve. |
| NewsdayRafer GuzmanWith nods to Samuel Fuller's classic madhouse thriller Shock Corridor and a low-budget feel that gives the film an added sense of grit, Unsane qualifies as a minor masterpiece. |
| World of ReelJordan RuimyThe film does fly off the rails in its last 20 or so minutes, but it's Foy and Soderbergh that carry it down to the finish line with the kind of artful director/actress partnership that's all too rare these days. |
| Fort Worth WeeklyKristian M. LinIt all adds up to yet another low-key winner for Soderbergh... Don't let Unsane go unseen. |
| TheWrapTodd GilchristWhether shot on an iPhone or just screened on one, Unsane effortlessly flexes Soderbergh’s skill as a storyteller and a technician, injecting the atmosphere and mechanics of a creepy scenario with a substance that deepens and elevates it to the stuff of a harrowing, intimate reality. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairSteven Soderbergh's most entertaining movie in ages... |
| Film ExperienceNathaniel RogersOnce it becomes a more standard thriller, its sickening jolts have a queasily programmatic aftertaste. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderShrewd, exasperating psychological thriller... Has some heft to it but doesn't live up to its full potential. |