

After Victoria mentions details of the plot, she is arrested for conspiracy to commit murder and securities fraud. Jonathan accepts Emily's offer to give him a cut of her money if he releases her from the ward.Įmily meets Victoria while wearing a wire. They plotted to kill Martin and to use the negative Ablixa publicity to manipulate stock prices.
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Emily taught Victoria about the financial world, while Victoria taught Emily how to fake psychiatric disorders. She began seeing Victoria for counseling, and the women became lovers. Emily explains that she hated Martin for losing their opulent lifestyle and began plotting to kill him. He threatens Emily with electric shock treatment and tells her that Victoria is paying him to keep her incarcerated so that she can keep a bigger cut.

Jonathan calls Victoria's bluff by telling her that Emily told him about their plot. Deirdre leaves him, taking her son with her. When he confronts Victoria with his findings, she mails photographs to his wife Deirdre implying that he had an affair with Emily. Though the serum is actually saline water, she feigns drowsiness, confirming Jonathan's suspicion that she is deceiving him. He interviews Emily after administering what he claims is a truth serum that will make her drowsy.

He also discovers that someone may have profited from Ablixa's fall in stock value. Jonathan discovers evidence that Emily is lying she was not depressed and faked her suicide attempts. The publicity destroys Jonathan's reputation his colleagues assume negligence on his part and expel him from their practice, leaving him broke. She pleads not guilty by reason of insanity and is declared innocent on the condition that she stays in a psychiatric hospital until cleared by Jonathan. Jonathan fights for Emily's acquittal in court. One night, Emily stabs Martin to death while sleepwalking. The drug seems to help Emily but gives her sleepwalking episodes as a side effect. Jonathan contacts Emily's previous psychiatrist, Victoria Siebert, who suggests an experimental new drug, Ablixa.
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Jonathan Banks, her assigned psychiatrist, prescribes a series of antidepressants, but none work. Plot Īfter her husband Martin completes a four-year prison sentence for insider trading, Bedford, New York socialite Emily Taylor drives into a wall in an apparent suicide attempt. Side Effects was released in the United States on February 8, 2013, by Open Road Films. It stars Rooney Mara as a woman who is prescribed experimental drugs by psychiatrists ( Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones) after her husband ( Channing Tatum) is released from prison. Side Effects is a 2013 American psychological thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Scott Z.
