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Beyond Therapy: Directed by Robert Altman. With Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti. A few unusual characters and their unconventional therapists cross paths resulting in hilarious interactions.
- (1.4K)
- Robert Altman
- R
- Comedy
Beyond Therapy is a 1987 American comedy film written and directed by Robert Altman, based on the 1981 play of the same name by Christopher Durang. It stars Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti, and Christopher Guest.
- $3.5 million
- Steven Haft
- February 27, 1987
Robert Altman's "Beyond Therapy" is killed by terminal whimsy. 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.
A bisexual New Yorker (Jeff Goldblum) seeing a psychiatrist meets a neurotic woman (Julie Hagerty) seeing a psychiatrist.
- (20)
- Robert Altman
- R
- Julie Hagerty
This is an insane and fast-paced romantic comedy about a bizarre dinner date among Bruce (Goldblum) and Prudence (Hagerty), and their lunatic therapists, and Bruce's jealous, gun-wielding homosexual lover Stuart, and Stuart's over-protective mother, and a whole group of very odd New York characters. Will Bruce and Prudence find love amidst all ...
"Beyond Therapy" is set in New York City but was filmed in Paris, where Altman had taken up residence for a time. The film opens in a French restaurant where Bruce (Jeff Goldblum) and Prudence (Julie Hagerty) have a disastrous first date, with Prudence having responded to Bruce's ad in a personals section of a magazine.
