Beyond Therapy (1986)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 6
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Based on the play by Christopher Durang, Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy is a comedy set in New York City but filmed in Paris, where Altman was living at the time. Arrogant Bruce (Jeff Goldblum) grows bored with his live-in lover, Bob (Christopher Guest), so he looks for a change by placing an ad in the personals. He meets neurotic Prudence (Julie Hagerty) at a French restaurant and they prove to be a terrible match-up. Then Bruce goes to see his therapist, Charlotte (Glenda Jackson), who has a
Feb 27, 1987 Wide
Dec 2, 2003
New World Video
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Cast
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Julie Hagerty
Prudence -
Jeff Goldblum
Bruce -
Glenda Jackson
Charlotte Bruce's Thera... -
Tom Conti
Dr. Stuart Framingham -
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Geneviève Page
Zizi Bob's Mother -
Cris Campion
Andrew Waiter -
Sandrine Dumas
Cindy -
Bertrand Bonvoisin
Le Gerant -
Nicole Evans
The Cashier -
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Matthew Lesniak
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Louis-Marie Taillefer
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Gilbert Blin
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Vincent Longuemare
Waiter
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There's no special logic at work. The performances are good, but the film has been assembled without an overriding sense of humor and style.
Top CriticHe needs more characters to play with than Durang's analyst's couches and restaurant trysts can provide, and simply hasn't the body count to fill in the vacant frames.
It's a movie in which every scene must have seemed like a lot of fun at the time, but, when they're edited together, there's no pattern to the movie, nothing to build toward, no reason for us to care. It's all behavior.
Robert Altman adapted Christopher Durang's play for this peculiar comedy that can't ever seem to find its rhythm.
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