Stressed out by the competition to be the Swan Queen and smothered by a controlling mother (Barbara Hershey), Nina starts scratching ... black swan. But as pressure mounts, her hallucinations ...

By Kirk Honeycutt Black Swan Interns - H 2013 ... Mom hovers obsessively over her daughter, watching everything from her diet to nervous habits, like scratching her skin until it bleeds.

There may come a time when Mila Kunis looks back on Black Swan as a moment of metamorphosis ... And she didn't escape injury – dislocating her shoulder two weeks before production began and ...

The new film "Black Swan," directed ... And Nina compulsively harms herself, scratching her back until she appears to have the wing-shaped ruptures of the swan she so desperately wants to become ...

it shows Portman’s Nina mentally disintegrate as she dances as the innocent White Swan and her opposite, the sexy, seductive Black Swan. “We took all the characters in ‘Swan Lake’ and ...

This footage will no doubt help to entice ballet-averse auds, though “Black Swan” is ... or irritated shoulder rash) into squirm-inducing conditions, or having her project a dark version ...