Director: Sacha Gervasi
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson
Sacha Gervasi's Hitchcock is a fine movie, a mostly light and airy look at the making of a masterpiece and the master filmmaker at its helm. The problem, of course, is that all that talk about that masterpiece sort of puts this film, which is far from that status, in a less than stellar light. Psycho is a watershed movie, one of most influential ever made, and Hitchcock never gets anywhere near that greatness. Granted, it never really tries - it seems content to simply be a run of the mill biopic (albeit a very charming one) - but while watching it you can't help but compare it to a film, and others like it, that did so much more for the art form.
