What age rating is Gerald's Game?

In Spain, Gerald's Game is not recommended for children under 16 years old.

What is Gerald's Game based on?

Gerald's Game is based on Gerald's Game by Stephen King.

Gerald's Game

Name: Gerald's Game
Director: Mike Flanagan
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Released: 2017-09-29
Duration: 1 h 43 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Carel Struycken, Chiara Aurelia, Henry Thomas

2017

Become a fan of its genres:

6.4/10

Release Date

29/09/2017

Popularity

🍅 Rotten Tomatoes

91%

🎬 Internet Movie Database

65%

Ⓜ️ Metacritic

77%

Jessie and Gerald Burlingame are a middle-aged married couple who arrive at a lakeside cabin in Fairhope, Alabama. Both hope the isolation and calm of the place will rekindle the warmth in a relationship that has been struggling for some time. Jessie arrives eager to leave behind the built-up tensions. Gerald, for his part, has an idea for the night: a game that involves handcuffing his wife to the headboard to heighten the sensations. Jessie agrees, though the situation soon becomes far more serious than she imagined. Mike Flanagan directs, and the leads are Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood.

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Facts about Gerald's Game

Releases, age ratings, box office, post-credit scenes and more.

Post-credits sceneNone

Age ratingNot recommended for viewers under 16 years old

Digital releaseSeptember 29, 2017

Worldwide premiereSeptember 19, 2017

Runtime1 h 43 min

Original languageEnglish

Original titleGerald's Game

CountryUnited States

Production companiesIntrepid Pictures

Based onGerald's Game by Stephen King

Trailer views22.4 M

More ratings

3.1/5Letterboxd66/100Trakt6.5/10Metacritic (público)3.0/4Roger Ebert

Awards for Gerald's Game

4total awards

5total nominations

Gerald's Game Cast

Carla GuginoJessie

Bruce GreenwoodGerald

Carel StruyckenMoonlight Man

Chiara AureliaYoung Jessie

Henry ThomasTom

Kate SiegelSally

Adalyn JonesMaddie

Bryce HarperJames

Gwendolyn MulambaJudge

Jamie FlanaganCourt Clerk

Dori LumpkinTeenage Girl

Natalie RoersReporter #1

Nikia ReynoldsReporter #2

Bill RialesReporter #3

Chuck BordenCourt Officer #1

Mike McGillCourt Officer #2

Charles DubeCorrections Officer

Kimberly BattistaProsecutor

Jon ArthurMobile Police Officer

John CeallachPolice Officer

Tony BeardTV News Reporter

Tom GlynnDOC Prisoner

Stu CooksonDefense

Ben PronskyRadio Reporter (voice)

Joseph Chadwick KinneyLine Reporter

Charles AdamsCourtroom Guests (uncredited)

Michael AmstutzDOC Prisoner (uncredited)

Clint EdwardsPhotographer (uncredited)

Robert GillTV News Camera Operator (uncredited)

Cliff HamiltonSketch Artist (uncredited)

Victoria HardwayCourtroom Guests (uncredited)

Shane JacksonCourtroom Reporter (uncredited)

Shannon J. JacksonPrint Reporter (uncredited)

David LachmannLawyer (uncredited)

Lynndi MaddoxLawyer (uncredited)

Marcus Deshaun RichardsonDefendant (uncredited)

Nailim SanchezDefendant (uncredited)

Brad SpiersPolice Officer (uncredited)

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Cast of Gerald's Game by the numbers

44average cast age in years

15years of age gap between the leads

34%women in the cast

22%women in the crew

The youngest in the main cast: Chiara Aurelia, age 15 at release. The oldest: Carel Struycken, at 69.

Cast ages at release

Carla Gugino46 years old
Bruce Greenwood61 years old
Carel Struycken69 years old
Chiara Aurelia15 years old
Henry Thomas46 years old
Kate Siegel35 years old
Jamie Flanagan36 years old

Cast heights

1.80 mHenry Thomas
1.73 mKate Siegel
1.65 mCarla Gugino

Crew

AddressMike Flanagan
WritingMike Flanagan, Jeff Howard
Original novelStephen King
MusicAndrew Grush, Taylor Stewart
PhotographyMichael Fimognari
EditingMike Flanagan
Production designPatrick M. Sullivan Jr.
Costume designLynette Meyer
CastingKellie Roy, Anne McCarthy
Visual effectsBret Culp
ProductionTrevor Macy

Trivia about Gerald's Game

The novel by Stephen King that the film is based on was long considered impossible to adapt to the screen, according to English-language Wikipedia.

After seeing the film's first cut, Stephen King described it with three adjectives listed in its reception profile.

The Rotten Tomatoes critics' consensus notes that Carla Gugino sustains the film's suspense with a performance that defines her career.

The shoot lasted 23 days, and Carla Gugino spent most of that time on the bedroom bed, where the real handcuffs could not be padded because the camera would have shown it.

Mike Flanagan called «Gerald's Game» the most difficult shoot of his career and explained that he used an Arri 65 camera with a large sensor to keep the entire space in view.

A local Alabama woman, initially hired as a camera double, ended up also playing the young version of Jessie and another character in the film.

The movie won four awards and received five nominations, according to the IMDb record associated with its profile, which also lists Mobile, Alabama, as a filming location.

Carla Gugino said that Mike Flanagan asked her to take ownership of the screenplay and told her the film belonged as much to her as it did to the director.

Sources: Wikipedia (English) · Wikipedia (Spanish)