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Summary: All-Star Cast leads a good film by BRILLIANT ALTMAN
Review: Robert Altman (director of Player, and Nashville among countless other little known great films) directs DR. T. and the Women. Richard Gere plays Dr. T, a gynochologist, who is surrounded by fascinating, yet weird and crazy women. First there is his wife (Farrah Fawcet) who is in a looney bin and thinks Dr. T. is her brother. Then her sister Peggy (Laura Dern) who is a drunk raising 3 little girls. Dr. T.'s head nurse (Shelley Long) who is secretly in love with Dr. T (who isn't). Also one of Dr. T's daughter's who's getting married, but is hiding a secret (played wonderfully by Kate Hudson) and his other daughter (Tara Reid) who despises her sister, but assures her daddy that nothing is wrong with her. You want more...Liv Tyler, who plays Kate Hudson's maid of honor for the wedding and the main female LEAD is Helen Hunt...she plays a golf pro that Dr. T. falls for once his wife is in the nut-house. Countless other women are in this and it revolves around the GYNO office visit with them. These are funny, sometimes TOUCHING (no pun intended) and wacky scenes. There are guys in this movie...you'll recognize ANDY RICHTER from Conan O'Brien (formerly his side-kick)--he does a good job. This story ties itself together well, then Robert Altman unties EVERYTHING and a strange ending happens......if you go see this movie beware of the last 5 minutes--pretty bizarre and don't eat anything during the last 5, okay? Overall, Altman does a bang-up job with his all-star cast. I'd go check out Dr. T and the Women, again. Rated R for Nudity, Language, Sex, Gyno visits....Women will love this movie and guys--it is not bad either for you. Check it out!
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Summary: Dr. T & The Women
Review: Dr. T & The Women~ Robert Altman is a movie that grows on you meaning the more you see the more you like it. Richard Gere plays a very successfull gynecologist whom seems to have everything going for him. Then his world starts to fall apart with his wife going insane, a daughter whom is obessed with JFK and then the worst of it all his daughter whom is about to be married is really a lesbian. The movie is funny, outrageous and brutal at the same time. One really feels sorry for Dr T when he realizes that the wedding is a sham and when he has to examine his daughters girlfriend...yikes...I loved it and so will you....
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Summary: Bad Ending
Review: Gere is great. Nice to see Shelley Long in a movie again. Tara Reid was kind of wasted (she is very talented). Liked the themes that were being dealt with in the movie, but my god what an awful ending! One of the worst endings I have ever seen. I know what it was trying to say but it was such a cop out, and it left hanging quite a great deal with all the characters we had come to know throughout the course of the film. This is one of those movies where I can understand why my friends don't like Altman. *See Nashville, The Long Goodbye, The Player. Those are his best films.
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Summary: Farrah in a fountain
Review: The doctor Gere plays in this movie should be a dentist, because that is what this movie is like, going to see the dentist. This movie has absolutely no energy or pacing behind it at all. Director Robert Altman makes it look like a bad 70's movie, scenes leading nowhere, characters that often just complain, a "realistic" environment, and a complete lack of any cohesive plot. A half hour into it makes you feel as if you've been watching it all day. The movie is so bad it not only makes you bored, but mad at it as well, mad, too, that a piece of drek like this can even be made in the first place, with actual money spent on it, when other decent ideas are probably sitting on shelves in Hollywood. How so many stars managed to appear in it is a mystery to me. I can just hear their agents: "You'll be working with Robert Altman, don't worry about the script!" Well, somebody should have. Altman even managed to talk Farrah Fawcett into a brief "artful" nude scene, I can just picture that conversation, too: "It's art, Farrah!" The characters she, Gere and others play simply don't work at all. Here is a movie who's faults lay squarely on the shoulders of the director. If Altman had any talent to his work at all (I'm not convinced he ever had), then it's all gone dry now. This movie does have one distinction: many movies make you bored with them, very few make you actually hate them. This one certainly does.
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