As the picture winds down into an extremely (not to put too fine a point on it) plain variation on “Fatal Attraction,” one’s inclination to question its implausibility diminishes as well. From left, Alicia Silverstone, Anna Pniowsky and Rob Corddry in “Bad Therapy.” Credit... Gravitas Ventures Unfortunately, the therapist, Judy Small (Michaela Watkins), is an unhinged manipulator who unscrews the tops of the Howards' skulls and roots around in their subconscious minds, looking for buttons to smash. Has this women ever done something note worthy, outside Aerosmith music vids and Clueless? Running time: 1 hour 37 minutes. When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Set in the underworld of debt-collecting and follows the homegrown hustler Peg Dahl, who will do anything to escape Buffalo, NY. She has her reasons. When Susan's best friend Roxy (Aisha Tyler) reveals that she's pregnant with triplets, it unleashes a flood of anxiety over unresolved tensions with Bob, and the two agree to enter marriage counseling with the same therapist who treated Roxy and her husband. “Bad Therapy,” directed by William Teitler from a script by Nancy Doyne, who also wrote the novel on which it’s based, then moves ahead into a tepid domestic comedy-drama and winds up as a tepid thriller. Watkins gives more to Judy than the film does; the script tips its hand early by having the therapist go full cuckoo, to the point where it's hard to accept that two reasonably intelligent, functioning adults would continue to see her for long. As every other Alicia Silverstone movie,this is boring. You'd think the producers would've managed to secure the services of at least one wannabe. Rob Corddry and Alicia Silverstone play an unhappily married couple in “Bad Therapy,” a new comedy-drama about treatment that’s worse than the condition. ?In this instance it's probably not only her fault. If you consider “God Only Knows” by the Beach Boys a song you could never get tired of, its use over the opening credits — prefaced by that Frank Lloyd Wright quote about how if you tip the world over, everything loose would land in Los Angeles — might refute that. And once they're revealed, the character becomes less intriguing than when she was a mysterious chaos agent, because plausible psychology is not something this film is terribly interested in—nor should it be; lots of movies make no sense that way, yet still manage to thrill, amuse, and surprise. Was this review helpful to you? Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Even at the peak of his powers, a master filmmaker like Robert Altman ("The Player," "Nashville") might have struggled to unify such disparate elements. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. The unlikely friendship that kindles between a struggling stand-up comedian from L.A., forced to move back home with his tail between his legs, and a tragically flawed, but charming and charismatic, alcoholic dermatologist. Title: and "Captain Ron," essentially lighthearted cousins of those suburban stalker thrillers) dissolves any tension that the story can generate. Bob, an arguably underpaid cable television executive, is first seen slouched before the dining room table possibly ogling his 12-year-old stepdaughter, while Susan, a dissatisfied real-estate agent, darts about the kitchen, stressed about her day’s appointments. Judy, as it happens, is a rogue doctor. “Bad Therapy” is the cinematic equivalent of lukewarm water. "Bad Therapy" may remind 1980s and '90s cinema fans of a certain subgenre of thriller (represented by films like "Fatal Attraction," "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle," "Unlawful Entry," and Martin Scorsese's "Cape Fear" remake) wherein an outwardly happy bourgeois couple was terrorized by a stalker figure who represented their repressed desires or unaddressed neuroses. Couples therapy becomes family therapy, then Judy starts seeing Bob and Susan separately — and giving them dangerously contradictory advice. During the Japanese invasion of China, a wealthy martial artist is forced to leave his home when his city is occupied. If you've binged every available episode of the hit Disney Plus series, then we've got three picks to keep you entertained. But it also has the probably unwanted effect of preparing the viewer for the inevitable tidiness of the narrative’s conclusion. Rent or buy on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, and other streaming platforms and pay TV operators. There are no Altmans at work here. There are no Altmans at work here. Judy baits Susan with questions like, “Are you not aware that your husband is an exceedingly attractive man?” Bob, emboldened by Judy, engages in productive flirtation with a very game colleague, played by the former Dallas Cowboy cheerleader Sarah Shahi.

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