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Beyond Therapy

Comic relief for incurable romantics.

1987 · 1h 33m · R Comedy
Directed by Robert Altman

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Manhattanites Bruce and Prudence are each looking for a meaningful romantic relationship and have been encouraged by their psychiatrists to find someone through the personal ads. Their first meeting is disastrous, but they begin to hit it off during their second date. However, Bruce's bisexual, live-in lover does not want to share Bruce and is willing to do whatever it takes to keep him to himself.

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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.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
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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.

Pat Graham, Chicago Reader
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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.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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