Freud's Last Session

A fictional meeting occurs between C. S. Lewis (Matthew Goode), nicknamed "Jack," and Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins), two days after the start of World War II. They debate the existence of God, as Freud greatly resents Lewis's recent rejection of his own strain of atheism in favor of Christianity, and many other subjects. The two men discuss issues such as Lewis's post-traumatic stress disorder as a World War I combat veteran, J. R. R. Tolkien (Stephen Campbell Moore) and the Inklings, and the nature of Freud's and Lewis' relationships with other people, such as Freud's daughter Anna (Liv Lisa Fries), who is codependent upon her father. However, she eventually introduces her lesbian lover, Dorothy Burlingham (Jodi Balfour), to him. At its close, the film records that Freud died by suicide several weeks later due to the intense pain from his oral cancer; Lewis became a famous author of Christian literature, and the children he took in as evacuees during the war inspired The Chronicles of Narnia; Anna and Dorothy lived together for decades, and Anna became known as the founder of child psychology. The film notes that Freud met with an unidentified Oxford don in the last days of his life, who could possibly have been Lewis.