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# Not So Psycho

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#### Who is Ally Bank?

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#### What bank is built for life today?

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* Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner.
* Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.

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by 

[Mary Pols](https://time.com/author/mary-pols/)

Dec 3, 2012 5:00 AM UTC

by 

[Mary Pols](https://time.com/author/mary-pols/)

Dec 3, 2012 5:00 AM UTC

“I couldn’t make psycho without my tongue in my cheek,” Alfred Hitchcock once said. Director Sacha Gervasi takes the same ironic approach in Hitchcock, in which the master of suspense (Anthony Hopkins) makes a transition to straight-up horror and rediscovers the love of a good woman: his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren). It’s a feel-good frolic, which is fine for those who prefer their Hitchcock history tidied up–absent the megalomania, condescending cruelty and propensity for sexual harassment that caused The Birds star Tippi Hedren to declare him “a mean, mean man.”

On the set, Hitchcock is in his element: nervy, pervy and proud of it. “Call me Hitch,” he tells Anthony Perkins (James D’Arcy) and Janet Leigh (Scarlett Johansson) on the first day of shooting. “Hold the cock.” Gervasi and screenwriter John J. McLaughlin don’t shy away from showing the grossness of Hitchcock, both behavioral (he’s got a peephole into his leading lady’s dressing room) and physical (he gobbles multiple tins of foie gras straight from the fridge). But it’s all portrayed as cute, harmless–the quirks of your genius dirty uncle. Nothing about him calls for indignation. HBO’s recent The Girl, which told the Hedren story, portrayed him as a bad seed. Is there no middle ground?

Hopkins tries to find it. Beautifully costumed in Hitchcock’s undertaker suits, he nails the mannerisms and incongruously delicate movements of a man who navigates from behind a vast belly. The prosthetic chin needed some work, though. When Psycho’s screenwriter, Joseph Stefano (Ralph Macchio), sums up his daily therapy sessions as “sex, rage, my mother,” Hopkins’ eyebrows sail upward in delight as the chin dips down and threatens to sail off entirely.

Impersonating an icon is risky business. Making a movie about making a movie is riskier. Hitchcock improves on pleasant piffle like My Week with Marilyn with the help of the voyeuristic enticements of the Psycho backstory and a strong cast. D’Arcy (last seen as physicist Rufus Sixsmith in this fall’s Cloud Atlas) makes for a sly Perkins, Johansson captures Leigh’s perky sex appeal, and Mirren is both tart and vulnerable as Reville–often neglected for those famous icy blondes even as she functioned as Hitchcock’s editor, nanny and personal chef. Thanks largely to her, Hitchcock has a happy ending no one will believe–certainly not Hedren–but as the master himself liked to say: It’s only a movie. (In theaters now)

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