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...Reported by Patrick E. Cole/Los Angeles and Georgia Harbison/New York
...theoretical about the conspiracy that primarily obsesses Jerry. We learn that decades earlier it seized and victimized him (among many others) in a government-supported attempt to create our very own Manchurian candidates; that this program has been directed undetected all these years by the visibly wicked Dr. Jonas (Patrick Stewart), one of those shrinks who in life would lose their license but whose malpractices are never questioned in the movies; and that it is the purity of Jerry's love for Alice that is bringing him back to his senses, in intermittent but ever increasing flashes...
...quite convoluted, the basic premise of the movie is simple: the paranoid cab driver, Jerry, finally hits home with one of the many conspiracy theories he publishes in his newsletter titled, of course, "Conspiracy Theory." He is being trailed by an insidiously evil, Harvard-grad CIA psychologist, Dr. Jonas (Patrick Stewart), who wants to find Jerry and force him to admit what he doesn't exactly know he knows...
...completely paranoid man; his jumpiness and fidgety behavior are both comical and discomforting. He never shuts up throughout the entire movie (except when he's staring into Alice's eyes), which makes you want to slam your hands on his shoulders and shake him into speaking coherent sentences. Patrick Stewart brings a fine creepiness to the role of the shrewd, vicious Dr. Jonas. He's a villain you love to hate, especially when Jerry finally gives him his comeuppance...
...forefront of the movement are McDonagh, 26; Patrick Marber, 32, whose play Closer is running at the National's small Cottesloe Theatre; and Mark Ravenhill, 31, whose controversial play Shopping and F______ is finishing a month-long run at the West End's Gielgud Theatre before heading to Edinburgh; it will be seen in New York City early next year. An earlier trilogy of McDonagh's opened this past weekend at the Duke of York's, which makes him the only writer this season, apart from Shakespeare, to have four plays running concurrently in London...