Lovesick

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Howie L I’ve only walked out of a movie a few times in my life. This was one of them. Nothing fun to watch here. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/21/24 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member 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 Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Less then average, with poor editing, but midway into the film it get's interesting. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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