TY - ADVS AU - Aronofsky,Darren AU - Cassel,Vincent AU - Franklin,Scott AU - Heinz,Andrés AU - Hershey,Barbara AU - Heyman,Mark AU - Kunis,Mila AU - Libatique,Matthew AU - Mansell,Clint AU - McLaughlin,John J. AU - Medavoy,Mike AU - Messer,Arnold W. AU - Millepied,Benjamin AU - Oliver,Brian AU - Portman,Natalie AU - Ryder,Winona AU - Tchaikovsky,Peter Ilich ED - Cross Creek Pictures. ED - Fox Searchlight Pictures. ED - Phoenix Pictures. ED - Protozoa Pictures. ED - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. ED - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. TI - Black swan PY - 2011/// CY - Beverly Hills, CA PB - Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. KW - Ballerinas KW - Drama KW - Ballet companies KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Ballet dancers KW - Ballets KW - Friendship KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Psychoses KW - Triangles (Interpersonal relations) KW - Women KW - Conduct of life KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - Feature films KW - Thrillers (Motion pictures) KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Originally produced as an American motion picture in 2010; Special features: Black Swan: Metamorphosis [featurette] (49 min.); Sneak peeks (7 min.); Director of photography, Matthew Libatique ; production designer, Thérèse DePrez ; editor, Andrew Weisblum ; costume designer, Amy Westcott ; original score, Clint Mansell ; visual effects supervisor, Dan Schrecker ; ballet choreography, Benjamin Millepied ; ballet costumes designed by Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte ; "Swan Lake" composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder; MPAA rating: Rated R for strong sexual content, disturbing violent images, language and some drug use; Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A N2 - Nina is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company. Her life, like most in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her mother Erica, a former ballerina who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: new dancer Lily, who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her ER -