The Wife

1995
R
1 Std. 41 Min.

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Wallace Shawn and Karen Young in The Wife (1995)

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuTom Noonan's dark comedy features a husband-and-wife team of psychotherapists who run a New-Age therapy group out in the wilderness. Late one night, Jack and Rita are visited by one of their... Alles lesenTom Noonan's dark comedy features a husband-and-wife team of psychotherapists who run a New-Age therapy group out in the wilderness. Late one night, Jack and Rita are visited by one of their patients, Cosmo, and his wife, Arlie. Cosmo's wife has felt "left out," since her husband... Alles lesenTom Noonan's dark comedy features a husband-and-wife team of psychotherapists who run a New-Age therapy group out in the wilderness. Late one night, Jack and Rita are visited by one of their patients, Cosmo, and his wife, Arlie. Cosmo's wife has felt "left out," since her husband spends so much time with the therapists and confides all of their secrets to them. Arlie ... Alles lesen

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10jonachan

Powerful, human and profound!

Loved it! A 10 as far as I'm concerned. I'm critical by nature and I think this movie was perfect. I hope to find it in a video store so my wife can see it too. Complex, real dialogue. Shows real insight. A lot of talk and never a dull or false moment. Nothing mundane about it. I'm sorry he hasn't received the praise he deserves for the incredible stuff he is writing and directing.

9inframan

spellbinding

This is one of those movies that takes on a difficult subject and looks at it a thousand different ways. In any other hands than Tom Noonan's it would have been as hypocritical and as shallow as its subjects (Woody Allen would have filled it with celebrities & predictable one-liners).

10roky-68258

and i am also a (retired)therapist......

And this is so on the money that for years when friends would ask me "so whats it like to be a psychotherapist?", i would recommend that they see this film, and later explain that it is only a slight exaggeration. absolutely the most messed up group of individuals i have ever encountered, short of new-age gurus. i know, burst your bubble, but you probably suspected this anyway.

9desperateliving

9/10

A rare play that deserves to be a movie, Tom Noonan plays a New Age healer with marital troubles when one of he and his wife's (Julie Hagerty) patients, played by Wallace Shawn, decides to stop by their house in the woods with his wife, played by Karen Young. The cast is brilliantly effective, and we're never sure exactly who is controlling the evening. Noonan is creepily menacing, and the way he uses the camera for close-ups on actors' faces -- sometimes shown by reflections on winne bottles -- is excellent. There are some cliched parts in the movie -- reflections and mirrors, cheating spouses, drug use, and a night of drinking at a "dinner party" -- but nothing in the film is conventional. This is one of the best movies of 1995. 9/10

emg-4

dubious...

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?