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Sony Pictures Classics, presenting Freud's last session.

Anthony Hopkins is Sigmund Freud, and Matthew Good is CS Lewis

in Freud's last session, now playing select theaters.

A warning, this episode contains discussion of suicide.

The very good new film The Iron Claw tells the story of the Von Errik family.

They were a big deal in professional wrestling in the early 1980s with Patriarch Fritz,

directing several of his sons into the sport with

disastrous consequences.

The film features Zach Ephron and Jeremy Allen White and it considers the way Fritz's version

of masculinity and strength echoes in the lives of his sons.

I'm Linda Holmes and today we're talking about the Iron Claw on Pop Culture Happy comes from NPR sponsor, Sony Pictures Classics, presenting Freud's last session.

Anthony Hopkins is Sigmund Freud and Matthew Good is CS Lewis in Freud's last session.

Now playing select theaters.

Joining me today's NPR producer J.C. Howard. Welcome back, J.C.

Hello, hello, thanks for having me.

Absolutely. I want to say first that going into this movie I had read the

Wikipedia page about the family and I was glad I did because it prepared me a little for what comes

along in the film it's a very sad story if you don't want to know the basic

outlines of what happened to the Von Errik's feel free to check out the movie and then come back to us

because we are going to talk about the family story.

So just know that out of the gate.

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