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...handler (Gerard Depardieu). In the dungeon of Sleeping Beauty's Castle, a powder-puff piece of surreal estate inspired by Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, reposes a fabulous Audio- Animatronics dragon that snorts steam, flashes its stoplight eyes and bares claws nearly as long as Barbra Streisand's in The Prince of Tides. Kids love teasing the reptile; take them to see it. And lose them, if you care to, in Alice's Curious Labyrinth, a 400-yd. maze dominated by a tennis court-size Cheshire cat painted in flowers. You can get lost -- really lost -- among...
...shift onto the client, a process called countertransference. When a woman counselor takes up with a male patient, the impulse is often a "fantasy that love will cure the patient," says psychiatrist Glen Gabbard of the Menninger Clinic, who points to the romance between the therapist played by Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte's character in The Prince of Tides. "The movie would have you believe that what was helpful to him was her love for him, not her professional expertise...
...movie is as lush visually as Conroy's book is lush verbally. There is something tidal -- that is to say, patiently inexorable -- in its rhythms. And as Tom Wingo, protagonist of all the movies Streisand is sweeping along on the imagistic current she has unleashed, Nick Nolte gives a force-of-nature performance -- shrewd and gullible, bitter and innocent, bigger than life but still in touch with...
...because his sister Savannah, a poet, has again attempted suicide. It develops, of course, that her psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein (played not entirely believably by the director), has a life as miserable as Tom's. Her husband (Jeroen Krabbe) is a cold, egomaniacal concert violinist, her son (played well by Streisand's real-life son Jason Gould) the victim of the Golden Boy syndrome, torn between the violin and a rough sport (in this case football...
With all this trouble, can a love affair -- healing for him, liberating for her -- be far behind? Unfortunately, the look that Streisand imparts to this passage -- that of a commercial for a feminine-hygiene product -- is a deal breaker, the moment at which at least some portion of the audience is likely to realize that their eager-to-please saleslady has been soft-soaping a hard sell all along. By slamming several minor domestic dramas together in one handsomely presented package, Tides achieves the length and weight of an epic. But it is a false epic, a grandiose delusion compounded...