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well-known bartender. She agrees to go to his home for sex. Before the two can engage in any sexual activity, Frankie switches to an alter ego, and cracks the man's head open with a picture frame. Word of Frankie's violent activity spreads to the strip club quickly, and Frankie is fired from the needed job. Similar episodes occur while Frankie is at the laundromat and at a wedding.
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her personality. She realizes that when she was a teenager she was in love with a white man who died in a car accident while they were on the road. In the same session, she also connects with the memory of the birth of her child. Moments after the birth, Frankie's mother realizes that the child is half-white and kills it, thus triggering Frankie's personality to split.
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with Doctor Oz. During a session, Frankie learns that she has two alters: Genius, a seven-year-old child; and Alice, a Southern white racist, whom Frankie struggles to overcome. Through regular sessions with Dr. Oz, Frankie begins to recall the traumatic events that led to the dissociative splits in
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Frankie is performing at a Los Angeles club in 1973. She is one of the best strippers at the club, and often attracts the attention of wealthy businessmen. One night, the club's female employees go out for a "Girls Night". As the girls observe all the men at the bar, Frankie gets the attention of a
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in the United States on December 10, 2010, to qualify for awards. The film's producers, Access Motion Pictures, had planned for a wider release the following February, but these plans did not materialize even as Berry was nominated for a
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described the film as "a well-wrought psychological drama that delves into the dark side of one woman's psyche". The review also said Halle Berry was "spellbinding" as Frankie, with "rock-solid" supporting performances.
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After she watches the taped sessions, and puts everything together, Frankie begins the healing process, taking control of her life and semi-integrating the personalities that Dr. Oz assures her will always be present.
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While the film received mixed reviews from critics, Berry's performance was widely praised and she received several accolades, including a nomination for the
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The film spent a decade in development, with Berry involved in the project since the mid-1990s. Filming took place in 2008.
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acquired distribution rights to the film. The film was given a wider re-release on April 4, 2014.
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is ultimately too narratively strained and clumsily assembled to do her performance justice." On
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it has a score of 47% based on reviews from 14 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
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Geoffrey Sax
Oscar Janiger
Philip Goldberg
Halle Berry
Stellan Skarsgård
Newton Thomas Sigel
Andrew Lockington
CodeBlack Films
Lions Gate Entertainment
Cannes
drama film
Geoffrey Sax
Halle Berry
Vancouver
British Columbia
go-go
dissociative identity disorder
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
psychotherapy
Halle Berry
Vanessa Morgan
Stellan Skarsgård
Phylicia Rashad
Chandra Wilson
Rosalyn Coleman
Joanne Baron
Brian Markinson
Matt Frewer
Katharine Isabelle

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