Final Analysis (1992)

Regisseur:

Phil Joanou

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Robert Berger (story) and
Wesley Strick (story) ...

Premierendatum:

7. Februar 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romanze | Thriller

Werbezeile:

A psychiatrist and two beautiful sisters playing the ultimate mind game.

Plot:

Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married (to a gangster)...

Plot Keywords:

Bar | Bathtub | Female Nudity | Beautiful Woman | Restaurant

Filmpreise:

4 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Elements of Hitchcock throughout...and a lot of deja vu...

Besetzung

Richard Gere	...	Dr. Isaac Barr
Kim Basinger	...	Heather Evans
Uma Thurman	...	Diana Baylor
Eric Roberts	...	Jimmy Evans
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Mike O'Brien
Keith David	...	Detective Huggins
Robert Harper	...	Alan Lowenthal
Agustin Rodriguez	...	Pepe Carrero
Rita Zohar	...	Dr. Grusin
George Murdock	...	Judge Costello
Shirley Prestia	...	Dist. Atty. Kaufman
Tony Genaro	...	Hector
Katherine Cortez	...	Woman Speaker
Wood Moy	...	Dr. Lee
Corey Fischer	...	Forensic Doctor

Alternativ:

Eiskalte Leidenschaft (Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

124 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby

Altersfreigabe:

Singapore:PG (cut) | Iceland:16 | Singapore:M18 (re-rating) | Netherlands:16 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | Germany:12 | Norway:15 | Peru:18 | Portugal:M/16 (video premiere) | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R

Drehorte:

Bix Restaurant - 56 Gold Street, San Francisco, California, USA

Firma:

Roven-Cavallo Entertainment

Dies und das:

John Boorman had originally planned to direct the film.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: When Heather jumps in bed with Isaac her hair is curly, but afterward is perfectly straight.

Dialogzitate:

Mike O'Brien: [his last line] Ever consider you got the wrong sister?

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in "Seinfeld: The Movie (#4.14)" (1993)

Elements of Hitchcock throughout...and a lot of deja vu...

What might have been even more effective with a better script is this dark melodrama which seems to borrow heavily from past psychological melodramas--particularly those films of Hitchcock which rely on such settings as the final showdown between Gere and Basinger. Camera effects in the lighthouse spiral staircase seem to borrow from the bell tower scene in Hitch's "Vertigo". As does the use of San Francisco settings--but lacking is a score such as Bernard Herrmann supplied or a script that makes the events seem credible.

Kim Basinger does well enough as the woman behind the mysterious plot but never manages to be entirely convincing when the plot calls for heavy dramatics. Richard Gere almost sleep walks through his role. But Uma Thurman and Eric Roberts deliver what can only be described as "creepy" portraits that linger in the mind after the film ends. And end it does on a bravura note with a raging thunderstorm and a return visit to the lighthouse under more dire circumstances the second time.

The final scene is Thurman's big moment. But it all has the air of deja vu thanks to all those psychological thrillers of the '40s that got even better effects when filmed in glorious B&W.