1977 · comedy
High Anxiety (1977)
Directed by Mel Brooks1h 34m1977
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
Our read: High Anxiety (1977) (1977) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
- funny
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