Denial is a 1990 American drama film

Drama film

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, written and directed by Erin Dignam. The film features Robin Wright as "Sarah," a sometime actress and tall, dark, handsome loner, "Michael" (Jason Patric

Jason Patric

Jason Patric is an American film, television and stage actor. He may be best-known for his roles in the films The Lost Boys, Sleepers, Your Friends & Neighbors, Narc, The Losers and Speed 2: Cruise Control. His father was actor/playwright Jason Miller...

), as lovers, as they were in real life, (before she was with Sean Penn

Sean Penn

Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, screenwriter and film director, also known for his political and social activism...

). "Michael" inhabits the realm of obsessional love with "Sarah" becoming his sickness, as he calls it—or her.

Cast

• Robin Wright as Sara/Loon
• Jason Patric
  Jason Patric
  Jason Patric is an American film, television and stage actor. He may be best-known for his roles in the films The Lost Boys, Sleepers, Your Friends & Neighbors, Narc, The Losers and Speed 2: Cruise Control. His father was actor/playwright Jason Miller...
  
   as Michael
• Barry Primus
  Barry Primus
  Barry Primus is an American television and film actor.Primus is primarily an actor, but has also doubled and tripled as writer and director. He worked on stage for the first decade of his career. He gained some experience on TV in shows like The Defenders, East Side/West Side and The Virginian...
  
   as Jay
• Christine Harnos
  Christine Harnos
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   as Sid
• Rae Dawn Chong
  Rae Dawn Chong
  Rae Dawn Chong is a Canadian-American actress.-Life and career:Chong was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong. She and her sister Robbi were raised by her grandmother, Tommy Chong's mother. Chong's father is of Chinese and Scottish-Irish ancestry and her...
  
   as Julie
• Elizabeth Bracco
  Elizabeth Bracco
  Elizabeth Bracco is an American actress who is best known for her role as Marie Spatafore, wife of Vito Spatafore, on the HBO TV series, The Sopranos....
  
   as Lizzie
• Rosalind Chao
  Rosalind Chao
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   as Terry
• Chris Mulkey
  Chris Mulkey
  Chris Mulkey is an American actor who most recently appeared in Against the Wall, Cloverfield, the NBC TV movie Knight Rider, and as a corporate executive in season 7 of 24...
  
   as Chad
• David Duchovny
  David Duchovny
  David William Duchovny is an American actor, writer and director. He has won Golden Globe awards for his work as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files and as Hank Moody on Californication.-Early life:...
  
   as John
• Justin Whalin
  Justin Whalin
  Justin Garrett Whalin is an American actor best known for his role as Jimmy Olsen in the American television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.-Early life:...
  
  as Jason