A Cure for Wellness

A Cure for Wellness
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGore Verbinski
Screenplay byJustin Haythe
Story by
  • Justin Haythe
  • Gore Verbinski
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBojan Bazelli
Edited by
  • Lance Pereira
  • Pete Beaudreau
Music byBenjamin Wallfisch
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • December 10, 2016 (2016-12-10) (Alamo Drafthouse)
  • February 17, 2017 (2017-02-17) (United States)
Running time
147 minutes[1]
Countries
  • United States
  • Germany
  • Luxembourg
LanguageEnglish
Budget$40 million[2]
Box office$26.6 million[2]

A Cure for Wellness is a 2016 psychological horror film directed by Gore Verbinski and written by Justin Haythe. Haythe and Verbinski were inspired by Thomas Mann's 1924 novel The Magic Mountain while coming up with the idea for the film.[3] Starring Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, and Mia Goth, the plot follows a young executive who is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from a mysterious rehabilitation center in the Swiss Alps.

An international co-production based in the United States, Germany, and Luxembourg,[4] the film was shot on location at various German locations, including Hohenzollern Castle in Baden-Württemberg.

A Cure for Wellness was released on February 17, 2017, by 20th Century Fox and received generally mixed reviews from critics, who praised its visuals, cinematography, performances and ambition, but criticized its length, script and narrative. It grossed $26 million against its $40 million production budget, making it a box-office bomb.

  1. ^ "A Cure For Wellness (18)". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on August 26, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2017.
  2. ^ a b "A Cure for Wellness (2017)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on May 8, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  3. ^ Han, Angie (December 21, 2016). "Interview: Gore Verbinski on Returning to Horror With 'A Cure for Wellness'". Archived from the original on February 21, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2017. Gore Verbinski: Well, there's this book by Thomas Mann called The Magic Mountain that we're both fans of, and that book deals with people in a sanitarium in the Alps, clutching on to their sickness like a badge before the outbreak of World War I. We wanted to explore this sense of denial and say, well, what if that was a genre?
  4. ^ "A Cure for Wellness (2017)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 17, 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2018.