The Treatment (2006)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 41
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 13
A comedy for grown-ups, The Treatment overcomes some technical lapses by virtue of a sharp cast.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 6
A comedy for grown-ups, The Treatment overcomes some technical lapses by virtue of a sharp cast.
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A man and a woman are faced with an unusual "fifth wheel" in their relationship -- his analyst -- in this offbeat independent comedy. Jake Singer (Chris Eigeman) is a schoolteacher working at a respected private school for boys. Jake recently parted ways with his longtime girlfriend and isn't especially happy about being single again. Jake begins seeing a psychiatrist, Dr. Morales (Ian Holm), whose advise often seems to cause more harm than good. Jake meets Allegra (Famke Janssen), a woman whose
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Christopher Eigeman
Jake -
Famke Janssen
Allegra -
Ian Holm
Dr. Morales -
Harris Yulin
Dr. Singer -
Stephanie March
Julia -
Blair Brown
Miss Callucci -
Roger Rees
Leighton -
Stephen Lang
Coach Galgano -
Elizabeth Hubbard
Claire -
Peter Hermann
Steve -
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The Treatment finds its agreeable pace. We've heard this particular story before, but it holds up to a skilled retelling.
Top CriticChris Eigeman finally gets to show his range in this romantic comedy.
A smart, tender love story.
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.
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.
...our emotional involvement remains superficial, and we never get that sense of uplift that Allen's better romantic city tales have given us.
It's an intelligent and thought-provoking romantic comedy.
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.
Valiant effort, but someone should have begged for a rewrite.
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.
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.
This film is so much more believable, amusing and entertaining than the crap we had to listen to in 'Knocked Up'.
--- cerebral, intelligently written and well acted adult fare ---
The three main performances are what carry the film
Considering the furious pace at which Allen himself cranks out second-rate comedies these days, why bother with a limp imitation?
Having an affair of the heart...and mind.
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.
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.
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[font=Century Gothic]...but then he meets the widow Allegra Marshall(Famke Janssen).[/font]
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[font=Century Gothic]"The Treatment" is a contrived romance that never truly comes alive, despite a good cast(of which Harris Yulin fares best), some quality moments and taking notice of the various economic strata exisiting in the small area of Manhattan Island. But even though the movie is about the need to come to terms with oneself, it is not a good idea to have such a self-absorbed lead character being on the same level as a recent widow.[/font]
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