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Director:
Irvin Kershner
Writers:
Elliott Baker (novel)
Elliott Baker (screenplay)
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Release Date:
23 September 1966 (Finland) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
We should all be so crazy. more
Plot:
Samson Shillitoe, a frustrated poet and a magnet for women, is behind in his alimony payments, and lives with Rhoda... more | add synopsis
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Satire on Psychoanalysis more (11 total)

Cast

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Sean Connery ... Samson Shillitoe

Joanne Woodward ... Rhoda Shillitoe

Jean Seberg ... Lydia West
Patrick O'Neal ... Dr. Oliver West
Colleen Dewhurst ... Dr. Vera Kropotkin
Clive Revill ... Dr. Menken
Werner Peters ... Dr. Vorbeck
John Fiedler ... Daniel K. Papp
Kay Medford ... Mrs. Fish
Jackie Coogan ... Mr. Fitzgerald
Zohra Lampert ... Evelyn Tupperman
Sorrell Booke ... Leonard Tupperman
Sue Ane Langdon ... Miss Walnicki (as Sue Anne Langdon)
Bibi Osterwald ... Mrs. Fitzgerald
Mabel Albertson ... Chairwoman
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Runtime:
104 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Netherlands:MG6 | West Germany:18 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
Filming Locations:
Long Island, New York, USA more
Company:
Pan Arts more

Fun Stuff

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Factual errors: A sign in the restaurant where Rhoda works advertises "banannas"; this could be a set design error or a real sign from a location shoot. more
Quotes:
Dr. Vorbeck: An American making love is like a Hungarian playing baseball. more

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Satire on Psychoanalysis, 2 May 2009
Author: howardeisman from United States

I saw this film when it was first released. It was a "fish out of water" comedy, a coarse brute running rampant among effete elitists. At that time, I had a lot of contact with numerous psychiatrist/psychoanalysts. This film brilliantly caught the self satisfied pomposity, the self promotional tendencies, and the double standards of this group. The psychoanalysts couldn't cope with this guy! I found this part of the film hilarious, although most of the humor would go unappreciated by those who didn't know any people in the psychoanalytic world.

I have seen this film many times since then. Much of it now makes me wince. The field of psychoanalysis has imploded and almost disappeared. Making fun of the pretensions of a now forgotten group of elitists is no longer very funny. Thus, it is a clumsy, sexist mild comedy. Yet, see it as a document of its time, and it is worthwhile.

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