Average Rating: 6.3/10
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Release Date: Feb 29, 1980 Wide
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William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, proved a workmanlike producer/director for 1979's The Ninth Configuration. Army psychiatrist Col. Kane (Stacy Keach) (teetering on the sanity brink himself) tries to minister to the patients in a military mental hospital. The fact that the hospital is located in a brooding old castle is hardly conducive to speedy recoveries. Nor does the mid-film barroom brawl indicate that Kane's approach to mental health is all that workable. Blatty adapted the
Feb 29, 1980 Wide
Sep 17, 2002
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unusual dark comedy, with stacy keach at his best.
At its worst, it is supposed to be profound; at its best it's amusing
Should be the centerpiece of a Stacy Keach shrine somewhere . . . should one ever be erected.
Brilliant, funny, moving examination of faith from Blatty.
An allegory that's so impossibly overstuffed that it can't help but explode
30 years before the disappointing Shutter Island took viewers to a remote mental asylum with a world-turned-upside-down storyline, William Peter Blatty gave us this supremely fucked-up account of a Marine Corp Colonel (played rather brilliantly by the passive Stacy Keach) that is assigned to take over an asylum housing
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