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Release Date: May 25, 2007
Studio: Lionsgate
Director: William Friedkin
Screenwriter: Tracy Letts
Starring: Ashley Judd, Harry Connick, Jr., Lynn Collins, Brían O'Byrne, Michael Shannon
Genre: Psychological Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for some strong violence, sexuality, nudity, language and drug use)
Official Website: Lionsgate.com/Bug


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bug007.jpg (407 K) A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter, an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again - until the first bugs arrive...

Probing the blurry lines between paranoia and nightmarish reality, Liongate's "Bug" is an intense, mind-bending psychological thriller in which nothing is quite as it seems. Directed by Academy Award® winner William Friedkin ("The French Connection," "The Exorcist") and adapted by Tracy Letts from his hit off-Broadway play, "Bug" stars Golden Globe nominee Ashley Judd, Harry Connick, Jr., Lynn Collins, Brían O'Byrne and Michael Shannon.— More here
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A nerve-rending, extremely unpleasant experience but also a compelling one.
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
"Bug" is a movie with something piercing to say about American life and paranoia--about the real-life horrors of government medical experiments and amoral covert action--and it's brilliantly acted.

We find ourselves in the fascinating no man's land between horror and comedy -- right where this movie wants us to be.
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon (who reprises his stage persona) never allow us to categorize the main characters as one-dimensional nut jobs but two emotionally fractured souls who retreat into paranoid delusion

'BUG' LACKS BITE
Kyle Smith
New York Post
Bug buzzes around in random menace for an hour until its third act, when -- zzzzzt! -- it flies straight into the zapper.

B+ Unexpected pleasure
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
Bug, written by Tracy Letts, was originally an intimate, unsettling play in which the confines of the stage could reflect the emotional and psychological claustrophobia of the subject matter.
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