Netflix has released a trailer for their limited series Maniac starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill.
Created by Patrick Somerville and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, the series also stars Sonoya Mizuno as Dr. Fujita, Justin Theroux as Dr. James K. Mantleray, Julia Garner as Ellie and Sally Field as Dr. Greta Mantleray.
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The Netflix Limited Series from Cary Joji Fukunaga arrives September 21.
Maniac Official Synopsis
Set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time, Maniac tells the stories of Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill), two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reasons.
Annie’s disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia. Neither of their lives have turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment—a sequence of pills its inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray (Justin Theroux), claims can repair anything about the mind, be it mental illness or heartbreak—draws them and ten other strangers to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug trial that will, they’re assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently
