2000 · comedy · drama · ensemble
Dr. T & the Women
Directed by Robert Altman2h 2m2000
A successful Texas gynecologist finds himself amid a bevy of women and their problems – his wife’s breakdown, his daughter's fake marriage, his other daughter’s conspiracy theories, and his secretary’s crush. Craving time for himself, he finds solace in a kind outsider.
Our read: Dr. T & the Women (2000) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · ensemble entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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