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      Beyond Therapy

      R 1987 1 hr. 33 min. Comedy Drama List
      17% 12 Reviews Tomatometer 30% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score A bisexual New Yorker (Jeff Goldblum) seeing a psychiatrist meets a neurotic woman (Julie Hagerty) seeing a psychiatrist. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Jun 14 Buy Now

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      Steve D Absolutely painful and without a single laugh. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/02/23 Full Review Audience Member In the 1980s Robert Altman released a string of films that were based on popular plays, "Beyond Therapy" was one of them. While the film has some laugh out loud moments, some very funny dialogue and extremely spirited and zany performances, Altman's lack of narrative focus ultimately hurts the film. Altman's directorial voice is lost here, because in all honesty, this seems like a direct copy of a Woody Allen picture. There isn't much originality to speak of. Plus, with a film that contains such an array of wackos, you need something for the audience to ground themselves in, and "Beyond Therapy" has none of that- no every man, no coherent arc. This is a funny but extremely unfocused and messy film. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member a film based on the play by christopher durang! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member ★1/2 (out of four) Director Robert Altman is among my Top Five favorite directors of all time. So it pains me to give such a horrible review to one of his movies. But, "Beyond Therapy" is beyond praise. It may hold the distinction of being Altman's worst film of his career. Jeff Goldblum plays a successful New Yorker who has grown tired of his live-in partner (Christopher Guest). He takes out an ad in the personals section and begins seeing a perky young woman (Lulie Hagerty) They turn out to be a terrible match. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/Zeppo1/BeyondTherapy.jpg[/IMG] Based on the play, the set-up just doesn't work and Altman's usual free-flowing dialogue and structure feels out of place in the constructed story. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member In the 1980s Robert Altman released a string of films that were based on popular plays, "Beyond Therapy" was one of them. While the film has some laugh out loud moments, some very funny dialogue and extremely spirited and zany performances, Altman's lack of narrative focus ultimately hurts the film. Altman's directorial voice is lost here, because in all honesty, this seems like a direct copy of a Woody Allen picture. There isn't much originality to speak of. Plus, with a film that contains such an array of wackos, you need something for the audience to ground themselves in, and "Beyond Therapy" has none of that- no every man, no coherent arc. This is a funny but extremely unfocused and messy film. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie is like an exercise in insanity... Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Nell Minow Movie Mom Rated: 2/5 Jan 27, 2005 Full Review 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. Rated: 2/5 May 20, 2003 Full Review 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. Rated: 1/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Michael Bronski Gay Community News (Boston) Beyond Therapy is a terrible mess of a movie. Sep 7, 2022 Full Review Tony Mastroianni Akron Beacon Journal Altman sometimes gets close to the split-second timing that is required to make farce work well. But close in a farce is not good enough. Rated: 2/4 Aug 16, 2021 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Ultimately, Beyond Therapy ends up being a tiresome slog, cutting inherently between various 'therapy' sessions between Conti and Hagerty, Jackson and Guest/Goldblum with no real rhyme or reason. Rated: 2/5 Jul 31, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A bisexual New Yorker (Jeff Goldblum) seeing a psychiatrist meets a neurotic woman (Julie Hagerty) seeing a psychiatrist.
      Director
      Robert Altman
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jan 10, 2012
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $471.9K
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