Kevin Spacey, Keke Palmer, Jack Huston
Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
DVD Release Date: September 29, 2009
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Flixster Reviews (489)
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October 8, 2009"The doctor is out."
Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
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September 25, 2009Slight disappointment since Kevin Spacey and Dallas Roberts are two excellent actors and usually deliver great films. Of course both of them gave wonderful performances as it was expected, but the movie was awfully and unnecessarily slow, the plot is one that even though he haven...( read more)
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October 18, 2009I thought it was good, but nothing spectacular. And I love Kevin Spacey...he didn't disappoint.
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November 22, 2009Happiness. Happiness is a word for a feeling. Feelings are rarely understood; in a moment they are quickly forgotten and misremembered.
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November 22, 2009Enjoyable for its performances but hardly original, a moderately funny drama comedy. mostly worth seeing for Kevin Spacey´s central performance.
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November 21, 2009Kevin Spacey delivers a career-best performance in this admittedly flawed, but highly underrated character drama. The script presents too many characters, and it ties together a bit too neatly for some tastes, but I found this film to be touching and thoroughly entertaining. It's...( read more)
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November 21, 2009In one word....Depressing.
Shrink is a good word to use fior this. I felt like the time of the movie needed to shrink. I also felt like my head and my interest was shrinking.
What a long and drippy way of explaining how life sucks, thats why people do drugs, and seek all...( read more) -
November 17, 2009Really a waste of time. I lost my time on this and I dont want to be wasted more by others..................... Depressing
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November 13, 2009Ahhh ... Kevin Spacey. No one else does the ethically out-of-it middle-aged Everyman like he can. I love hangdog Kevin ... and when he snaps awake in a role ... PAY ATTENTION. 8-D
The film itself is hilarious at the start. World-weary quips from the toasted shrink elevate sto...( read more)
Critic Reviews
July 31, 2009
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
July 31, 2009
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
Some of the humor is delicious. And there are a few fine moments of truth and pathos, most of them addressing a subset of grief often ignored on film. full review
July 30, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
[Spacey's] good, but the film doesn't find an emotional center, and we're left with actors acting out. full review
July 23, 2009
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Spacey gives his best performance since Swimming With Sharks, and Palmer, the young star of Akeelah and the Bee, has matured into an actress of depth and nuance. full review
July 22, 2009
Armond White, The New York Press
Coincidenceville would have been a better title for Shrink, the film in which psychiatrist Henry Carter (Kevin Spacey) and a handful of Los Angelinos crisscross past credulity but for the convenience ... full review
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