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Synopsis: Well-respected psychiatrist Dr. Jack Mickler is only 10 days away from his retirement. A week before he is due to leave, he encounters a young man who attempts suicide--would be a pretty straightforward case except the young man claims to be Don Juan, the fabled Spanish nobleman and world renowned seducer/lover of woman. Despite original hostility from his co-workers, Jack manages to persuade his associates to put the youth in his care for 10 days after which the youth will undergo an evaluation to be either released from psychiatric care or sent to a mental institution. However, as the 10 days progresses, Dr. Mickler and the other staff become gradually drawn into to the young man's exotic world of love, passion and pleasure as he recounts his story to them. Whilst doing so the man's philosophies and zeal for life and love begins to revive Dr. Mickler's somewhat passionless relationship with his wife, Marilyn as well as challenging his own views and ethics to the point where both he a
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Jeremy Leven
Production: New Line Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
PG-13
Year:
1994
97 min
3,281 Views


You mean Dr. Mickler?

Who?

Why do you think that Dr. Mickler...

...is Don Octavio del Flores?

Why do you think|Don Octavio del Flores...

...is Dr. Mickler?

Well. Hello there, Willy.

How are you?

- Don Octavio del Flores.|- At your service.

You told him that you were|Don Octavio del Flores?

Oh, Jesus.

You told a delusional patient...

...that you were a 17th-century|Spanish nobleman.

The idea was to get him|in the bucket. Right?

Well. He's all yours, Don.

Wait. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.|Did you tell Paul?

You bet I did.

And what did he say?

His exact words were,|"Jack broke it? Let him fix it."

This is very kind of you|to show me the way.

Yeah.

Yeah. Come on in.

Dr. Mickler, I've brought...

...Mr. Juan here for his appointment.

Thank you, Gloria.

I can return at the end|of the hour and see him back.

No. It's okay.

No. It's really no trouble. No trouble.

I'll be passing by this door|in exactly one hour. No trouble.

- Thank you.|- I have a break coming up.|- Thanks a lot.

Thanks a lot.

What are you doing to these girls?

Gosh almighty.

Your people have taken|my mask, Don Octavio.

They had no right to do that.

I never remove my mask in public.

Do you understand|the consequences of this?

Not fully, but...

Well, I will be cursed.

Well, I can certainly understand|how that could be upsetting.

Well, think how you would feel...

...if you were made to take off|this mask that you are wearing.

Our masks really|get us in dutch, don't they?

How long you been wearing yours?

Since I was 16.

I placed the mask on my face|and vowed never to remove it...

...on the day I left my mother,|the dark beauty, Doa Inez.

I have some pills here,|and I'd like you to take them.

- I think they'll help.|- Pills to stop delusions?

Well, then I am afraid we must take|these pills together...

...because you are severely deluded.

What delusions have I got?

This fantasy|that you are some Dr. Mickler.

I am very disappointed in you,|Don Octavio. Very disappointed.

Here's the drill. They can|make you take the medication.

That's state law.

You're on what they call|a 10-day paper...

...and for those 10 days...

...they can do whatever|they think is appropriate.

I am not deluded.

I am Don Juan, and if you will not|medicate me for these 10 days...

...I will prove it to you.

What if I don't believe you're Don Juan?

Then I will take your medication...

...and you may commit me|for as long as you like.

Do we have an agreement?

Do I have these 10 days|to tell you my story?

Okay.

Very well.

I was born in Mexico.

It became evident|from a very early age...

...that there was something|different about me.

I, myself,|slowly began to realize...

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known as Lord Byron, was a British nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage as well as the short lyric poem "She Walks in Beauty". He travelled extensively across Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived for seven years in the cities of Venice, Ravenna and Pisa. During his stay in Italy he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died in 1824 at the age of 36 from a fever contracted in Missolonghi. Often described as the most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics, Byron was both celebrated and castigated in his life for his aristocratic excesses, which included huge debts, numerous love affairs with both men and women, as well as rumours of a scandalous liaison with his half-sister. One of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, summed him up in the famous phrase "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". His only legitimate child, Ada Lovelace, is regarded as the first computer programmer based on her notes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. Byron's illegitimate children include Allegra Byron, who died in childhood, and possibly Elizabeth Medora Leigh. more…

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