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Summary: HORRIBLE
Review: This does not even deserve 1 star. There is NO OB/GYN office anything like this one, and if there were it wouldn't be funny. The whole movie is in poor taste and not even slightly amusing. All in all, watching this movie is a very slow and painful way to spend an evening.
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Summary: Stupid Movie!
Review: OMG!I can't believe I actually rented this stupid movie I couldn't wait it'll end.The story line was dull and stupid. Richard gere is Dr.Sullivan Travis a gyncolgist and he is married to kate (Farrah Fawcett) who got probably a breakdown and i9s in phsycatry instute because her husband loved her 2 much they have 2 daughters connie (tara reid) who I must say did the best prformence and dee dee (kate hudson) liv tyler is the lesbien lover of dee dee her name is marlyien (liv tyler did an horrible acting) and bree (helen hunt) is a golf assitent that dr.t falls in love with.This movie is stupid don't go watch it there are MUCH better movies!
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Summary: What a wast of resources.
Review: Unbeknown to me is the focus some screenwriters, producers and directors have on the utilization of available resources (human and financial). Here the film is packed with talented and aspiring people - but there is something seriously lacking - the entertainment factor. I became quite disappointed when I discover that the potential of a product, such as Dr. T and the Woman, can become so disillusioned by the need to achieve what seams to be the producer and director's personal watermark - 'something I can leave behind'. These people are not directly associated with the film at the same level as these talented and established actors, and therefore, should really conduct some market research before endeavoring to navigate the seas of entertainment. Good luck to you all and keep the coffee handy!
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Summary: Should be packaged in a black box with a white stripe.
Review: With all the great books that are out there,you wonder why someone was paid to write a turkey like this. It also makes you wonder how desperate these "stars" were that they took this job after reading the script. I bought the DVD sight unseen for my fiance because she likes Richard Gere "chick flicks". She had me turn it off and throw it out after the first 10 minutes!
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Summary: New Dallas native, loved the scenery & Lovett soundtrack
Review: Actually, this WAS the first Altman movie I've ever sat through. Hated Helen Hunt and wondered if they could have dressed her any butch-ier. I got a kick out of the suited, Yurman dripping Northpark shoppers - my husband noted there were absolutely no men in the 'mall' scene. I think the word I'd use for this movie is "amusing," because I loved the stereotypes of the Dallas women. And the golf course scenes were shot near my home, so that was fun. And people with money to burn interest me, as well. and and and.. When the movie ended though - not sure I really liked what they had happen - I really cared what happened to the characters, so I suppose the movie succeeded in that aspect. I found the marriage situation unbearably sad for some reason. Couldn't they have done anything to help Mrs. Travis appreciate what she had? I have the Lyle Lovett CD in my car permanently, and the instrumental "Dr T's Theme" is absolutely beautiful - so if nothing else, I appreciate that & plan on buying more Lyle Lovett because of it.
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Summary: Mr. T probably would have been better, couldn't be worse
Review: A movie packed with stars should have been much better than this. I'm a big fan of Richard Gere and many of the stars in this movie so I was really surprised at how bad this was. There didn't seem to be a story line just silly situations. Mrs. T (Farrah F.) going nuts because she is loved too much. Please. Stupid, stupid movie. A real waste of talent.
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Summary: Dr. T. Goes Nowhere
Review: In this movie the most distracting thing for me was the fact that all the women were talking over one another and you could not follow what they were saying or follow the movie. The Love interest story played by Helen Hunt goes nowhere and leaves you feeling flat and down. At the end of the movie they had an un-necessary birth scene that bordered on hard core ponography, just too much. I believe that the actors in this movie did a fine job acting but they had nothing to work with. Was there a plot? I really don't think so. I almost did not watch the movie to the end. There are much better movies out there so save your money and rent or buy something else for your collection. This movie is horrible and rates as one of the worst movies I have seen.
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Summary: Absolutely the worst movie I have ever seen...
Review: Anyone who finds this movie entertaining has been living inside of a closet for the last 73 years. Anyone who finds the director, Robert Altman, to be a genius needs to make sure they have eaten their green jello before leaving the mental institution. Every actor and actress in this flick need to double-check what they are paying their agent. I am still waiting for someone to tell me what the plot was. I normally don't go out of my way to critique a movie but people need to heed the warning about this one. It's unbelievable what Hollywood will spend money on. I recommend giving this movie to every college student who wants to make films. Let them know that this is the result of quantity, not quality.
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Summary: Therapy
Review: This movie is nothing what I expected. Most Robert Altman films have their emphasis on being erotic, or at least attempting to be erotic. There is maybe one scene in this film which is slightly erotic; the rest of it does not even pretend to be anything of a sensual nature. Now, this is not bad, just not what you'd expect from an Altman film. After watching this movie, I had a feeling it was going to take a beating in the customer reviews (and as you've noticed by now, I was right!). As others have already noted, this movie is most ASSUREDLY not for everyone. In many ways, what this movies seems to be, at least to me, is kind of a counterpart to the Mel Gibson movie "What Women Want." It's curious to note that Helen Hunt starred in that movie as well. While WWW focused on the noble attributes of the female gender while doing some mild male-bashing, this film does the opposite. It's not an absolute parallel, however, as this flick only indirectly steers one towards positive male-attributes, while at the same time the theatrical commentary on women is a touch more scathing than that which is directed towards men in WWW. Also, WWW is much funnier than the present movie, although Dr. T does have its moments. True much of the general depictions of women in this film are stereotypical. However, that is not to say that they do not have any footing in reality [again, just like the slams on men in WWW]. With my own personal encounters with women over the years I, for one, could relate to several scenes in this film. At first I found the ending to be Deus Ex Machina. However, upon further review, I believe that it was where this film was headed, after all. The tornado is symbolic of all of the chaos brought to the kindly gynecologist's life by the sundry women in his life. Nice touch. Again, this movie is not for everyone. It is border-line misogynistic, but always seems to have just enough charm to refrain from crossing the line & becoming really nasty. However, most men will be able to identify the impetuous and capricious behavior of the ladies in the story. Probably the most interested group of people would be men who are going thru a phase of frustration with their relationships w/women. I loaned my copy to a friend of mine going thru a divorce & he found it quite therapeutic.
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Summary: Packed DVD! Excellent film! Viva! Altman! Rock On!
Review: It's been a while since I've seen a more charmingly unusual, well-acted (that's right, and who cares if Gere's accent isn't authentic; he's perfect for the role in almost every other detail) albeit maybe not 'great' satirical film get so much undeserved and empty flack from certain audiences and critics (most of the small Pasadena audience I saw it with liked it and talked about it positively in the lobby afterwards, but then the women in that audience were probably much more intelligent CAL TECH students or faculty from the neighborhood and not your average mentally unbalanced newspaper columnists with a 'radical feminist' agenda, or Richard Gere Romance-movie-addicts). By contrast, the woefully awful, obscenity saturated, cynical, laughably pretentious and misanthropic "Magnolia" got plenty of praise from many of the same audiences and critics! And that guy was attempting to imitate Altman in embarrassingly inept fashion! Go figure the absurdities of the American movie-going public! But you have to understand that Altman's film doesn't peddle the over-the-top, sleaze-ball attraction of Tom Cruise grinding his pelvis and referring to women in the most degrading fashion imaginable; and yet, lo and behold, it's Altman's gentle satire that was labeled 'misogynist' by some because it didn't show any thoroughly exaggerated male characters like P.T. Anderson's not-likely-to-be-remotely- real (except maybe on the Jerry Springer show but that show's all exaggerated for effect anyway and not pretending to be profound) even-as-a-writer-for-Hustler-magazine buffoon, and instead, concentrated mainly on a few, well-drawn and realistic shallow women and one strong and intelligent one. First of all, it must be said, in case people forgot, that this film is a satire, and in a satire people are made to look routinely ridiculous to hopefully enlighten those who can understand and gain some perspective through it, to refine, if applicable, their own behavior by weeding out certain similar types of stubborn and insidious behaviors. It's about exposing vanity and absurdity. And if the balance of satire falls more heavily on the women in this film, there are at least 5 other films made by Altman himself where the opposite is true. But even this film is far from one sided when looked at more closely. How exactly are the men that go hunting with Dr.T, not made to look like idiots? And so what if Dr. T himself is made to look only 'gallantly foolish' for being 'too nice' (therefore causing his wife Farrah Fawcett to go into 'Childhood regression' ) ? Isn't a character criticized for being 'too accommodating' and intemperate in the opposite direction from the one so overwhelmingly depicted in almost every other satire, highly original in itself? Where else have you ever seen a character like this? Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate" maybe? But he was a confused kid with no money and Gere is a successful gynecologist making bank! The almost Marcus-Welby-like, meticulously polite and accommodating Dr. T. gynecologist character is as rare a subject for satire as any, and he is satirized for sure, but not in as obvious a way as his patients and family members, i.e., 'the women,' who bear the burden of his intemperate 'niceness' (and maybe take advantage of it in ways that they themselves don't realize). It's easy to mistake it for a 'faultless' depiction, because the fault happens to be an excess of something everyone considers a virtue when not in excess. But an excess of politeness and accommodation is definitely a fault and maybe even a vice and it will get you in a lot of unexpected trouble. Dr. T's doesn't know why he's made a mess of his life but we do, and that's immensely fascinating (especially since chronic 'nice guy' syndrome is widespread in society and potentially much more harmful than people think if not checked by some stronger, harsher, more truthful, and ultimately healthier realities). And so what if most of the women in Richard Gere's office are shown to be annoying idiots that drive him up the wall day after day, and whom he has to accommodate because it's his job? So what if most of the women in his family are relative airheads? Isn't the Helen Hunt 'golf coach' character the opposite number from all these airheads? Isn't her character one of the strongest, most independent minded women depicted in a film for quite a while? Doesn't she come to Gere's office and sit in the midst of a whole roomful of bickering women with quiet, dignified detachment? Doesn't she sleep with Richard Gere on a first date because she feels like it, fully aware that he will not look at her as 'easy' or in any way adversely as a result, but on the contrary, as a strong woman who takes what she wants guiltlessly and confidently, because she has related to him on an equal footing from the start? Doesn't she later give him advice in his office, and then reject his offer to marry her and 'take care of her' because she has her own life (like any self-respecting feminist would)? And so what if she's seeing Robert Hays (Gere's hunting buddy) on the side? Doesn't that further prove that she's independent enough to keep her options open and reject a conceited 'gynecologist' she likes very much but not enough to give up her career or principles for (if it comes down to a marriage offer that she's not ready to accept, as it surely did in the end)? Doesn't that show foresight and mature independence rather than some 'two-timing' 'cheating woman' nonsense proving her 'typical female treachery,' and 'shallowness' when she wasn't romantically committed to Gere yet anyway? I very much think so, and all Altman is doing is 'keeping it real,' and away from audience expectations and cliche, which, naturally makes a lot of people quite annoyed and mad, since their programmed tastes weren't satisfied.
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