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Possessed is the name of a 2000 Showtime original movie starring Timothy Dalton that is based on actual events which inspired the novel The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty. In the Showtime movie, Dalton plays Father William S. Bowdern, a Catholic priest who conducted an exorcism involving an adolescent boy.

The DVD was released on October 2, 2001 in the USA

Plot Summary

Tagline: It wants your soul.''

Father Bowdern (Timothy Dalton) is a WWII veteran who is severely affected by a bad experience in one of the combats where he got physically hurt (In the first scene of the movie, we see a flash back in a sort of a dream father Bowdern was having indicating that he was hurt by a Nazi soldier while he was trying to help another wounded soldier. This combat took place in France on All Saints’ Day in 1944). This incident has forced him to be alcoholic. One day, Father Bowdern was teaching his students at SLU. At the end of the lecture and when the students were going out, the windows of the class got smashed by angry people in the outside. When father Bowdern gets out, he discovers that there is a strike. Black people are facing white people, and the white people are throwing stones towards the University building and especially at Father Bowdern’s class. He gets angry at them and when the police officers come, he asks them to arrest those people. The policemen go directly to arrest the black people and Father Bowdern attack the cops. He gets arrested. Father Raymond McBride (Henry Czerny) pays the bill to let Father Bowdern get out of prison.

Robbie Mannheim (Jonathan Malen) is sitting with Aunt Hanna (Piper Laurie) who is teaching him how to get contacted with the ‘other world’. Robbie’s mother (Shannon Lawson) suddenly comes to the room and discovers what is happening and gets angry at Aunt Hanna, indicating that she told her not to expose Robbie to such experiences again. Robbie does not agree with his mother since it seems that he enjoys such contacts. When Aunt Hanna dies, Robbie keeps his trials to contact the other world. Robbie turns to be violent with his class mates. He hurts one of his colleagues during a class session, and the way he did it astonished the teacher and all the colleagues; the desk was moved when he was under it and severely wounded one of his colleagues in his hand. When he gets fired from school, his father (Michael Rhoades) gets really angry. When Robbie explains to his father that he did not deliberately do that and the desk moved itself, he could not believe him. During their conversation, the chair on which Robbie is sitting moves and Robbie is on the ground. Now, Robbie’s parents feel that there is something that happened to their child and he could be really ‘possessed’. They take him to Father Reverend Eckhardt (Richard Waugh), who understands what is happening to Robbie and takes him to his house to put him under exact monitoring (by putting him in a special room and attaching a light in front of his bed to help him record daily reactions by his camera). During Robbie’s stay, several things happen that convince Father Eckhardt that Robbie is being possessed; strange noise that happens in the house, the falling of the wall clock, the hysteria that affect Robbie every now and then. When he informs his wife that Robbie should be treated by the Catholics, Robbie severely attacks him.

Father Raymond McBride visits the family in their house to check Robbie after his parents came to the university requesting help (in an earlier scene and during one of Robbie’s hysterias, the parents found the letters SLU written on his belly). When he enters his room, he gets attacked and also gets convinced that the kid has some sort of supernatural power. He convinces Father Bowdern to visit the family. They go with each other. Father Bowdern goes to Robbie’s room and the kid seems fine (Robbie gets somehow comfortable in talking to Father Bowdern). When Father Bowdern tries to convince the parents that the kid is fine, he suddenly hears the kid experience the hysteria. Now Father Bowdern is convinced that the kid needs treatment. Father Bowdern and Father McBride go to Archbishop Hume (Christopher Plummer) to persuade him to practice Exorcism and treat the kid, he seems unenthusiastic (He indicates that he is trying to strengthen the position of the Catholic Church and show the American society that the Catholics are modern) . He requests to speak to Father McBride alone, and as a surprise, he nominates Father Bowdern to handle the issue. Father Bowdern, in association of Father McBride and Father Halloran (Michael McLachlan) start the process of treating Robbie. They conduct several visits to him and during which, Robbie starts throwing temper tantrums, attacking, vomiting and urinating on them, and swearing uncontrollably. During the treatment trials, Father Bowdern always had flashbacks to his bad war experience and gets under pressure that this could be another failure. Robbie gets transferred twice to two different churches, and finally Father Bowdern manages to cure him. The room in the church where the exorcism took place was locked based on Archbishop Hume’s orders.

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