Lovesick is a 1983 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Marshall Brickman.[2][3] It stars Dudley Moore and Elizabeth McGovern and features Alec Guinness as the ghost of Sigmund Freud.[4]
Plot
Psychoanalyst Saul Benjamin takes on a patient temporarily as a favor to a colleague friend, Otto Jaffe, who is infatuated with her. After her doctor dies, Chloe Allen comes to see Dr. Benjamin and immediately he is smitten with her, too.
The doctor-patient relationship is violated by Dr. Benjamin's romantic impulses toward Chloe and by his intense jealousy of anyone who comes near her, including Ted Caruso, an arrogant Broadway actor with whom she has become involved. The psychiatrist's wife also is carrying on an affair with Jac Applezweig, an artist.
The ghost of Dr. Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychology, visits Dr. Benjamin from time to time to dispense warnings and wisdom. Benjamin's work begins to suffer as he abandons patients like Mrs. Mondragon, finding her tedious, and treats the paranoia of another, Marvin Zuckerman, by designing a peculiar handmade hat for him to wear.
A board of inquiry calls in Dr. Benjamin to consider revoking his license. In the end, he admits his feelings to Chloe and concludes that he prefers true love to treating the sick.
In the film Sigmund Freud (Guinness) says, "It is in my professional opinion, as the man who invented psychoanalysis, that you are not Faign.", who is counseling Saul Benjamin (Moore).
Cast
- Dudley Moore as Saul Benjamin
- Elizabeth McGovern as Chloe Allen
- Alec Guinness as Sigmund Freud
- Wallace Shawn as Otto Jaffe
- Ron Silver as Ted Caruso
- John Huston as Dr. Larry Geller
- Alan King as Dr. Lionel Gross
- Selma Diamond as Dr. Harriet Singer
- Larry Rivers as Jac Applezweig
- David Strathairn as Zuckerman
- Christine Baranski as the Nymphomaniac
- Renée Taylor as Mrs. Mondragon
- Fred Melamed as Psychoanalyst
Reception
Release
Lovesick was released in theatres on February 18, 1983.[2] The film was released on DVD on October 20, 1998, by Warner Home Video.[5]
Critical response
Film critic Vincent Canby wrote in his review, "Mr. Moore and Miss McGovern are such appealing lovers that the movie successfully bypasses all questions of ethics."[2] Book editors Laurence Goldstein and Ira Konigsberg wrote in their book, The Movies: Texts, Receptions, Exposures, "One looks back with nostalgia to a time when psychotherapists are not fools like [...] lovesick fools like Dudley Moore [...] Psychotherapists were certainly portrayed as comic and horrific figures in earlier films, but they were a good deal of respect than in recent years."[6]
Gallery
Trivia
References
Citations
- ↑ "Lovesick". Beverly Hills, California: Nash Information Services, LLC.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Canby, Vincent (February 18, 1983). "DUDLEY MORRE RETURNS IN 'LOVESICK'". The New York Times. New York City: The New York Times Company. Retrieved March 27, 2020.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.
- ↑ Rieber & Kelly 2013, p. 68.
- ↑ Gabbard & Gabbard 1999, p. 107.
- ↑ Lovesick. Warner Home Video. Burbank, California: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group (Warner Bros. Entertainment). October 20, 1998. ASIN 6305133492. Retrieved March 27, 2020.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.
- ↑ Goldstein & Konigsberg 1996, p. 11.
Sources
- (2013) Film, Television and the Psychology of the Social Dream. New York City: Springer Publishing, page 68. ISBN 978-1461471745.
- (1999) Psychiatry and the Cinema, 2nd, Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, page 107. ISBN 978-0880489645.
- (2013) Film Quotations: 11,000 Lines Spoken on Screen, Arranged by Subject, and Indexed, Reprint, New York City: McFarland & Company, page 432. ISBN 978-0786474066.
- (1996) The Movies: Texts, Receptions, Exposures. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, page 11. ISBN 978-0472096404.
External links
Lovesick at the Internet Movie Database- Lovesick at AllMovie
- Lovesick (1983 film) at Rotten Tomatoes
- Lovesick (1983 film) at Box Office Mojo
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