Beyond Therapy (1986)
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25% of critics liked it
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31% of users liked it
(1,193 ratings)
Based on the play by Christopher Durang, Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy is a comedy set in New York City but filmed in Paris, where Altman was living at the time. Arrogant Bruce (Jeff Goldblum) grows bored with his live-in lover, Bob (Christopher Guest), so he looks for a change by placing an ad… More Based on the play by Christopher Durang, Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy is a comedy set in New York City but filmed in Paris, where Altman was living at the time. Arrogant Bruce (Jeff Goldblum) grows bored with his live-in lover, Bob (Christopher Guest), so he looks for a change by placing an ad in the personals. He meets neurotic Prudence (Julie Hagerty) at a French restaurant and they prove to be a terrible match-up. Then Bruce goes to see his therapist, Charlotte (Glenda Jackson), who has a strange disorder herself. In the same building, Prudence goes to see her own bizarre therapist, Stuart (Tom Conti), who believes in sex with his patients. Charlotte and Stuart also have an arrangement where they meet for anonymous sexual trysts. Meanwhile, Bob's mother (Genevieve Page) is worried about her son's relationship with Bruce and she interferes with everything. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
- Directed By
- Robert Altman
- Written By
- Robert Altman, Christopher Durang
- Genres
- Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Feb 27, 1987 Wide
- Studio
- New World Video
Critic Reviews
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
There's no special logic at work. The performances are good, but the film has been assembled without an overriding sense of humor and style.
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Pat Graham, Chicago Reader
He needs more characters to play with than Durang's analyst's couches and restaurant trysts can provide, and simply hasn't the body count to fill in the vacant frames.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
It's a movie in which every scene must have seemed like a lot of fun at the time, but, when they're edited together, there's no pattern to the movie, nothing to build toward, no reason for us to care. It's all behavior.
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
Robert Altman adapted Christopher Durang's play for this peculiar comedy that can't ever seem to find its rhythm.
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Cast
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Julie Hagerty
as Prudence
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Jeff Goldblum
as Bruce
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Glenda Jackson
as Charlotte Bruce's Therapist
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Tom Conti
as Dr. Stuart Framingham
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Christopher Guest
as Bob
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Geneviève Page
as Zizi Bob's Mother
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Cris Campion
as Andrew Waiter
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Sandrine Dumas
as Cindy
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Bertrand Bonvoisin
as Le Gerant
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Nicole Evans
as The Cashier
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Laure Killing
as Charlie
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Matthew Lesniak
as Mr. Bean
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Louis-Marie Taillefer
as Le Chef
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Gilbert Blin
as Waiter
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Vincent Longuemare
as Waiter
