Movie Preview: SHRINK

By Norm Schrager at June 2, 2009 | 10:29 pm | Print

Being a psychiatrist is rough. Okay, being a TV or movie psychiatrist is rough, from In Treatment to The Wackness to, hell, even What About Bob? Now, Kevin Spacey commands the couch in the film Shrink, a look at a troubled psych with some big Hollywood clients including the famous, once-famous and infamous.

The latest Shrink trailer

The Shrink movie poster

:: The Plot: Pot-smoking Hollywood shrink-to-the-stars Henry Carter (Spacey) just isn’t into it. He has to deal with a real motley crew of tinseltown patients including a has-been actress (Saffron Burrows, The Bank Job), an insecure writer (Mark Webber, next year’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) and an OCD mega-agent (Dallas Roberts, 3:10 to Yuma). When Carter takes on a freebie client he meets a troubled teen who adores the movie industry… which Carter now despises.

:: The Director: Jonas Pate, heading his first feature in about a dozen years, after directing episodes of Friday Night Lights and other filmed television series.

:: The Writer: Newbie Thomas Moffett (The Last International Playboy)

:: The Press Release: ”Writer Thomas Moffett uses classic archetypes in this modern Hollywood tale, but never pushes them over the edge of credibility. Performed by a well-matched cast at the top of their form, the result is both satisfying and exhilarating. Watching Shrink makes us feel like voyeurs looking through a window into the lives of people who look great, feel worse, and end up behaving badly.”

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