1987 · comedy · satire · stage
Beyond Therapy
Directed by Robert Altman1h 33m1987
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.
Our read: Beyond Therapy (1987) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · satire · stage entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / satire, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
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