The Treatment (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 40 Fresh: 27 Rotten:13 Average Rating: 6.2/10
Consensus:
A comedy for grown-ups, The Treatment overcomes some technical lapses by virtue of a sharp cast.
Runtime: 86 mins
Theatrical Release: May 4, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Chris Eigeman (BARCELONA, METROPOLITAN) makes a welcome comeback in this film about a young man trying to find some purpose in life. Between his dysfunctional relationship with his father, being dumped by his girlfriend, and meeting endless hurdles in his job as a teacher, Jake Singer... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Chris Eigeman, Famke Janssen, Ian Holm, Blair Brown, Stephanie March
Director: Oren Rudavsky
Screenwriter: Daniel Saul Housman
Producer: Oren Rudavsky, Jonathan Shoemaker
Composer: John Zorn
Screenwriter: Daniel Saul Housman
Producer: Oren Rudavsky, Jonathan Shoemaker
Composer: John Zorn
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Its otherwise straightforward narrative does what it can to revive the corpse of grown-up romance, with just enough surrealism to save the film from its more serious impulses.
02/01/08
A small film about a high school teacher in an elite Manhattan prep school, but it's filled with large doses of wit and insight.
10/12/07
The Treatment finds its agreeable pace. We've heard this particular story before, but it holds up to a skilled retelling.
08/24/07
Oren Rudavsky's adaptation of Daniel Menaker's novel is a quietly enjoyable romantic comedy for adults who like to see characters acting like adults.
08/23/07
This film is so much more believable, amusing and entertaining than the crap we had to listen to in 'Knocked Up'.
08/12/07
Chris Eigeman finally gets to show his range in this romantic comedy.
08/10/07
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Janssen is an intense screen presence. Too often she's stuck playing humorless towering antagonists. Here, happily, she's allowed to be a real person.
08/09/07
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Eigeman has been in training for this kind of thing for years, but the pleasant surprise is Janssen, who shows a gift for clever dialogue. This is light fare, but it’s smart, enjoyable light fare.
08/09/07
...our emotional involvement remains superficial, and we never get that sense of uplift that Allen's better romantic city tales have given us.
07/05/07
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Considering the furious pace at which Allen himself cranks out second-rate comedies these days, why bother with a limp imitation?
06/23/07
Treatment has small intentions, but its friendliness and caution with melodrama makes it a swell change of pace from other neurotic essays on self-absorption.
06/14/07
The Treatment is richest when it zooms in on the testy co-dependence between analyst and analysand. It’s high time for a comedy about the decline and fall of traditional psychoanalysis.
06/14/07
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