Lovesick

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CodyZamboni Z @CodyZamboni 05/05/2025 This romantic comedy is amusing and pleasant, As a psychiatrist's orderly world goes out of control when he falls in love with young patient, Lots of wacky characters, Has with some pointed barbs at the psychiatry industry , art snobs, and pretentious actors. Some old school Hollywood moments provided by John Huston And lots of fantasy sequences, especially Dudley talking to Sigmund Freud , played by with good humor by Alec Guinness, Holding this movie together is the sweet romance between Dudley Moore and Elizabeth McGovern, Also noteworthy is the lush orchestral score. See more Howie L @RT33147836 10/21/2024 I’ve only walked out of a movie a few times in my life. This was one of them. Nothing fun to watch here. See more 06/13/2021 I've always had a soft spot for Dudley Moore, and this is a little play-within-a-play combined with some Freudian psychotherapy sessions. I don't know if it's particularly resolved (you would need Carl Jung for that), but it is a sweet film. Dudley Moore was always particularly appealing because he was a classically trained musician who could tickle the heck out of piano keys, and his sensitivity as a musician could always be felt in comedies like this. See more 02/04/2018 These ratings are ridiculously & wrongly low. Is this the best of DMoore? No. Was casting Elizabeth McGovern inspired? Yes. Is this the best rom-com you'll see? No. Is it all good though? Yes. Is it reminiscent of Woody? Yes. This is an hour-&-a-half of a pleasant, nearly delightful NYC town-&-no-country rom-com. And it works for the perfect length to which the film is cut. It's great to see the leads & a fine supporting cast back in the early '80's - and the warm apartment interiors of what's now yester'year. Perhaps not coincidentally McGovern's character is from Illinois; so is she. Speaking of the '80's: One now drifts dreamily into memory when lives weren't dominated by electronic devices best suited to nerds & the socially stunted - i.e., the swarm of maternally helicoptered millennials who now outnumber the offspring of the men of the WW2 gen, the Boomers. | Norm de Guerre See more 12/30/2012 Written and directed by Marshall Brickman (who worked with Woody Allen on the scripts for Sleeper, Annie Hall and Manhattan), this is an amusing and warmly funny romantic comedy. It also has a good cast, and Brickman does well with the romance and the comedy, and it's something that could have been weaved from Brickman's former writing partner. Psychologist Saul Benjamin (Dudley Moore) is asked to take on a patient as a favour to a late friend, the patient is Chloe Allen (Elizabeth McGovern) and after their first session, Saul falls hopelessly in love with Chloe. But, Chloe is already in a relationship with arrogant Broadway actor Ted Caruso (Ron Silver), but Saul's wife Katie (Anne Kerry) is having an affair with artist Jac Applezweig (Larry Rivers). But as Saul wants to be with Chloe, Saul is frequently visited by the ghost of Sigmund Freud (Alec Guinness), who appears to heed warnings about the dangers of a doctor having a relationship with a patient, and Saul's obsession with Chloe means he's abandoning his patients, and it throws his life into disarray, and he has to choose between love or helping the sick. It's a gentle romantic comedy, not all of the jokes work, but when they do they're funny. Moore and McGovern make good romantic leads, while Guinness is endearing and funny as Freud, and there's good support from John Huston, Christine Baranski, David Strathairn and Wallace Shawn. See more 11/14/2012 Dudley is an average or lower comedian & he struggles drastically in a straight role. The premise of this film is that Dudley Moore a psychiatrist falls for one of his parents & comic results ate ensured, but this film was just not funny at all. Elizabeth McGovern the love interest is a great actress but even she couldn't do anything with this dull role. A silly film that gets tiresome quickly. See more Read all reviews

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