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Equus

A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.

Psychiatrist Martin Dysart (Richard Burton) 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 (Peter Firth), 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.

Info about Equus

Studio(s): United Artists, Persky-Bright Productions

Originally Released: United States, Oct 16, 1977

Production Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Budget: $4,000,000.00

Genres:Drama, Mystery