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...Alan Schatzberg, who served as interim psychiatrist-in-chief will continue at McLean as a psychiatrist and co-director of the hospital's Affective Disease Program...
...home, he comes upon a Muslim funeral. He weeps for the unknown person who is being buried, and is noticed by one of the mourners (who wouldn't, it's hard not to in his preppiered sweater), who invites Andrew back to his village for a feast. But Schatzberg doesn't develop a relationship between the two, so the man merely serves as a token. This is the funeral that Andrew never attended for his mother, and the tears shed for the old man are those he wants so much to shed for his mother. Schatzberg belittles and manipulates human...
...delineating his pain. When he gets out of a shower, shivering and wet. he reaches out to an empty towel rack and he calls out "Mom, I need a towel" It is the fleeting moments like this that give the film its most potent and forceful moments. Unfortunately Schatzberg's attempt to create a collage of scenes in which Andrew and his father struggle with their loss is frequently uneven and ultimately unsatisfying...
Hackman is excellent as the frigid father, who represses his grief and most importantly his love for his older son, favoring his younger son who reminds him of his deceased wife. Hackman, like Thomas, seems actually to be mourning, and his lines are delivered with sincerity and credibility, but Schatzberg's interactions between father and son are frequently awkward despite Hackman's excellent performance...
Huckleberry Fox, who plays the younger son. Miles, is both adorable and effective, but is too cute and cheerful in contrast to his pained father and brother. Schatzberg expects us to believe that he is too young to grieve for his mother. He doesn't cry, but he does show enough sensitivity to plead with his father not to blame Andrew when they spend a day exploring a crowded market. Again, the audience responds to his spunky antics but as most of the film's characterizations, it is seemingly inconsistent...