Mental illness (manic-depressive type) as a sanction to act up a storm. Richard Gere, at his antsy-pantsiest, doesn't think he's ill; he thinks he's back in Breathless (James Brown on the soundtrack). And before the end he literally charms the pants off his psychiatrist, Dr. Elizabeth Bowen (why not Dr. Jane Austen or Dr. Virginia Woolf?). A science-vs. -spirit struggle, as visually spare as a TV movie, though with fuzzier photography. Lena Olin, Anne Bancroft; directed by Mike Figgis. (1993) — Duncan Shepherd
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