Lovesick (1983)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Marshall Brickman

Writer:

Marshall Brickman (writer)

Release Date:

18 February 1983 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Fantasy | Romance

Tagline:

The psychiatrist who's crazy about a patient

Plot:

A psychiatrist who falls in love with a patient is visited by the spirit of Sigmund Freud, who gives him advice on how to handle it. |

Plot Keywords:

Ghost | Independent Film

Cast

Dudley Moore	...	Saul Benjamin
Elizabeth McGovern	...	Chloe Allen
Alec Guinness	...	Sigmund Freud
Christine Baranski	...	Nymphomanic
Gene Saks	...	Frantic Patient
Renée Taylor	...	Mrs. Mondragon
Kent Broadhurst	...	Gay Patient
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Suzanne Barrie	...	Jaffe's Wife
Anna Berger	...	Analysis
Otto Bettmann	...	Dr. Waxman
Mark Blum	...	Intern Murphy
Amalie Collier	...	Maid
Anne De Salvo	...	Case Interviewer
Selma Diamond	...	Harriet Singer, M.D.
Sol Frieder	...	Analyst
Ann Gillespie	...	Actress
Merwin Goldsmith	...	Analyst
John Huston	...	Larry Geller, M.D.
Peggy Johnson	...	Actress
Fred Kareman	...	Analyst
Mohindra Nath Kawlra	...	Analyst
E. Katherine Kerr	...	Analysis
Anne Kerry	...	Katie Benjamin
Alan King	...	Lionel Gross, M.D.
Fred Melamed	...	Psychoanalyst
Jeff Natter	...	Stage Manager
Isabell O'Connor	...	Nurse (as Isabell Monk)
Lotte Palfi Andor	...	Analysis
Kaylan Pickford	...	Anna
Ray Ramirez	...	Mr. Menendez
Lester Rawlins	...	Silent Patient
Benjamin Rayson	...	Analysis
Larry Rivers	...	Jac Applezweig
Raynor Scheine	...	Shelter
Stefan Schnabel	...	Gunnar Bergsen, M.D.
Jack Sevier	...	Man in Shelter
Yanni Sfinias	...	Hot Dog Vendor
Wallace Shawn	...	Otto Jaffe
Richard B. Shull	...	Dr. Fessner
Ron Silver	...	Ted Caruso
Stewart Steinberg	...	Analysis
David Strathairn	...	Marvin Zuckerman
John Tillinger	...	Play Director
Ellen Whyte	...	Waitress
Wolfgang Zilzer	...	Analyst (as Paul Andor)

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Sweden:Btl | USA:PG | Australia:M

Company:

Ladd Company, The

Trivia:

This was originally intended as a project for Peter Sellers before his death in 1980.

Quotes:

Chloe Allen: Here I was, in the middle of an obscene phone call, and I thought of you.

Intellectual-lite

Marshall Brickman attempts something comedic, fanciful and yet high-brow with "Lovesick"...and the different genres prove to be an uneasy mix. Dudley Moore, who at this point was churning out more bombs than WWII, plays the most unconvincing psychiatrist I have ever seen; his rapport with Alec Guinness (a fantasy Freud) has a tidy bounce, and John Huston works minor magic as the head of the medical board, but Moore is continually unsure of himself. Elizabeth McGovern tries hard as the object of Moore's lovesickness, but she isn't really suited to this kind of material--nor is she suitable for Dudley Moore, just as Mary Tyler Moore was wrong for him in "Six Weeks" and Mary Steenburgen looked out of place in the later "Romantic Comedy". The picture has a poor, cheap look, with blurry beiges and whites typical of the staid early-'80s, and I couldn't wait until it was over. *1/2 from ****