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Synopsis: A psychiatrist (Gere) has an affair with his patient's sister (Basinger) who is married to a Greek mobster (Roberts). The mobster is a tyrant over his wife. The psychiatrist wants her to get a divorce, but she is afraid of what her husband would do. She has a medical condition that becomes apparent when she drinks. One night she drinks anyway and attacks her husband. The psychiatrist uses his professional pull to try and help her out of the consequences of her actions, but becomes uncertain if she is telling him the truth.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Phil Joanou
Production: Warner Home Video
  1 win & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
R
Year:
1992
124 min
250 Views


They stop surprising you.

I just want to be surprised, Mike.

I'm Heather Evans.

Diana's sister.

Right. Yeah.

She did say I was coming by?

I hope.

Yeah, she mentioned you might be...

...stopping by.

She felt it was important we talk.

She said you might be able to

shed some light on her family history.

Yes, maybe.

You want to sit down?

How often does this happen?

What?

A patient's sister

coming by and talking to you.

Not very often.

Actually, never.

Never?

What exactly are you

trying to do for Diana?

I guess I'm doing what all shrinks do.

To paraphrase Freud, I'm trying...

...to turn her neurotic misery

into general unhappiness...

...so she can be like the rest of us.

But she's not like the rest of us.

How do you mean?

Our father...

Our mother left us

when we were very little.

And my father and Diana...

My father was...

Let's say...

...he had a lot of problems.

Your father raped Diana?

Yes.

Do you think you can help us?

Yeah, I think I can.

I hope so.

Isn't she beautiful, Dr. Barr?

She said you guys met.

Yes, we did.

Compared to Heather, I always felt...

...like a caterpillar,

creepy and crawling.

A caterpillar turns

into a butterfly, doesn't it?

Heather's the butterfly.

Isn't that obvious?

I had the dream again.

I'm arranging flowers

on a table as a centerpiece.

Lilies...

...carnations.

What was the third?

Remember what we said

about the stove ritual?

The stove ritual's over.

I haven't done it in a week.

I'm checking the gun now.

I make sure the safety's on

and that it's loaded.

Ten times every morning.

What makes you feel that you need a gun?

I don't.

It's Heather's gun.

She made me take it.

How does it make you feel...

...when you're...

...checking the gun?

It's my surrogate penis.

And my safety being on is because I'm

ambivalent about my phallic fantasies.

And the bullets are semen.

Do you think about the dangers...

...of having a loaded gun?

All the time.

Diana, if you don't mind...

...have your sister call me.

Diana said you wanted to see me.

I did.

- How long were you waiting?

- Not long.

I didn't want to bother you at work.

I was working late. Want to come in?

Come on in.

Why don't you take your coat off?

It's soaked.

You want a cup of coffee? I don't have

any coffee. You want a drink?

I can't drink. I mean, I don't drink.

- Glass of water?

- That'd be great.

It's really beautiful.

Thanks.

"The insanity defense... "

No, no, don't do that.

It's just a paper I've got to deliver.

Are you giving a speech?

At a symposium on law and psychiatry.

Fascinating.

It's in a couple of months.

Diana told me about the gun.

What gun?

The gun she said you gave her.

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Wesley Strick

Wesley Strick (born February 11, 1954) is an American screenwriter who has written such films as the comic-horror hit Arachnophobia, the Martin Scorsese remake of Cape Fear and the videogame adaptation Doom. Since 2015, Strick has worked as a writer/executive producer on The Man in the High Castle (Amazon TV series). more…

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