To realize that such studio entertainments found a way to accommodate politics and satire is to mourn something largely lost.
The President's Analyst (1967)
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Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 17
Rotten:4
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Theodore Flicker's satirical comedy skewers Cold War politics, psychiatry, spy films, and the 1960s counterculture all in one fell swoop. When the U.S. President begins to feel overwhelmed by the... Theodore Flicker's satirical comedy skewers Cold War politics, psychiatry, spy films, and the 1960s counterculture all in one fell swoop. When the U.S. President begins to feel overwhelmed by the duties of his job, respected psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Schaefer (James Coburn) is called in to help him relieve the stress. Schaefer soon feels the pressure of keeping all the President's secrets and decides to resign his post. When he finds himself in danger from both Soviet and American agents who want his former patient's political secrets, a comical chase ensues through the hippie subculture of 1960s America. [More]
Starring: James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Joan Delaney
Starring: James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Joan Delaney, Pat Harrington, Barry Maguire, William Daniels, Eduard Franz, Walter Burke, Arte Johnson
Director: Theodore J. Flicker
Director: Theodore J. Flicker
Screenwriter: Theodore J. Flicker
Producer: Stanley Rubin
Composer: Lalo Schifrin
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Reviews for The President's Analyst
Theodore Flicker's genial exercise in comic paranoia re-emerges, for no apparent reason, a reasonably fit and funny artifact from the age of grooviness.
If Philip K. Dick had worked for Mad magazine, he might have come up with The President's Analyst.
Mindless bureaucracy, Cold War mentality, blind liberalism, and psychoanalysis are spoofed in this fast-paced comedy.
The President's Analyst is a superior satire on some sacred cows, principally the lightly camouflaged FBI, hippies, psychiatry, liberal and conservative politics -- and the telephone company.
Overall it's hilarious stuff, held together by Coburn's tongue-in-cheek performance, one of his best.
Writer and director Theodore Flicker's satire is modern and biting, and there are many fine, subtle touches in the film.
plays like a frivolous waste of time when it should have taken a more satirical tack
The 60s school of improvisational comedy is beautifully preserved in Theodore J. Flicker's film.
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