Maniac Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

Set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time, Maniac tells the stories of Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill), two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reasons. Annie’s disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia. Neither of their lives have turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment—a sequence of pills its inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray (Justin Theroux), claims can repair anything about the mind, be it mental illness or heartbreak—draws them and ten other strangers to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug trial that will, they’re assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently.

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Comedy

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  Jonah Hill

  The Wolf of Wall Street, War Dogs

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  Billy Magnussen

  Lift, Game Night

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  Sonoya Mizuno

  Civil War, Deep Cover

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  Emma Stone

  Bugonia, Eddington

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  Sejal Shah

Who is making Maniac – Crew List

A look at Maniac behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Cary Joji Fukunaga last helmed No Time to Die and Beasts Of No Nation.

Director

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Screenwriters

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Production – What we know about the Maniac

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Key Facts

• Based off of a Norwegian television series of the same name.

Movie Filming Timeline: Production Status Updates

Aug 2018

Completed

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