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...social and economic changes that have convulsed U.S. families in recent decades. But Americans -- from government officials to educators to parents -- have been shamefully slow in addressing the impact of such upheavals on youngsters. "Among the more developed countries of Western Europe and Japan," says Hamburg, a noted psychiatrist and educator, "the U.S. now ranks in the bottom quartile in caring for children...
...real problems with the film lie elsewhere: in the chilly, self-conscious sleekness of its production design, in the heartless and relentless thrill seeking of Paul Verhoeven's direction, in the too intricate, not entirely persuasive plotting required to create an alternate suspect, a police psychiatrist (Jeanne Tripplehorn) who truly loves Douglas. Finally, the film breaks faith with the most inviolable convention of the whodunit -- refusing to state firmly which of the two women dunit (notwithstanding gay activists' confident naming of one of them, in a publicity campaign aimed at undermining the movie). This reflects its fundamental flaw of arrogance...
...years on the superior-court bench here in Visalia ((a town of 80,000 situated 181 miles north of Los Angeles)), you've got into a lot of trouble because of your so-called creative sentencing. You've made defendants quit smoking, attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings or see a psychiatrist as conditions of probation. You ordered a thief to wear a T shirt proclaiming he was on probation. You told a man who beat his ex-wife to leave town. You sentenced a man who assaulted someone to donate his car to a shelter for battered women. Isn't this...
...does a beautiful woman carry a gun in FINAL ANALYSIS? Because "there are a lot of lunatics out there!" At least three of them are at large in this steamy Hitchcock knockoff -- mostly from Vertigo. A psychiatrist (Richard Gere, with his famous hair and casual sexual authority) blunders into toxic relationships with two wily sisters (Kim Basinger and Uma Thurman). Soon, despite her married bondage to creepy contractor Eric Roberts, Basinger takes Gere to bed. Their mandatory sex scene is shot in tiger stripes of light and shadow, as if it were an R-rated outtake from the Nature series...
...begin in the office of San Francisco psychiatrist Isaac Barr (Richard Gere) as he listens attentively to patient Diana Baylor (Uma Thurmond). "I've had the dream again," she confides, haunted. "I'm arranging flowers as a centerpiece...