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16 August 1996 (USA) morePlot:
Tom Noonan's dark comedy features a husband-and-wife team of psychotherapists who run a New-Age therapy group out in the wilderness... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Credited cast) | Tom Noonan | ... | Jack |
| Wallace Shawn | ... | Cosmo |
 | Karen Young | ... | Arlie |
| Julie Hagerty | ... | Rita |
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I'm a therapist and, while this was attention-getting, it just doesn't wash. Predictability (the drug-user, the most disturbed-seeming character ending up the most poignant, too much to drink) and lots of gratuitous histrionics; characterizations are not built slowly, they are alternately slapped together and then dismantled. Noonan is unfair to his other characters; he's obviously written "Jack" as the only seriously charismatic (although seriously flawed) personage in the screenplay. Why dare to update "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and only do it halfway?