SPOILER ALERT, but you should really keep reading.
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Passengers (DVD), starring Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson, is about a psychologist (Hathaway) who must help the few surviving passengers of a plane crash come to terms with their emotions. During their therapy sessions, she discovers there are some discrepancies among the passengers and the airline about what exactly happened. She starts to suspect things are not as they seem.
The film's director, Rodrigo Garcia, is also the director of many of the episodes in the first season of HBO's excellent series, In Treatment. In some ways Passengers replicates elements of the show: it is about a psychologist; it consists mostly of her attempts at getting them to talk about their traumas; it aspires to the same tone.
But that is where the similarity ends. Without giving anything specific away, Passengers has more in common with movies like Stay, The Sixth Sense, and Vanilla Sky, than In Treatment. Take that however you want.
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