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...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. The four gorgeous leads aren't playing characters here...
Basinger, and Uma Thurman...
...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...
...Witches of Eastwick, were the wrong gents to midwife Wolfe's book. So was De Palma, whose vision is all muscle, no finesse. Tom Hanks lacked the slick stature of Wall Street wizard Sherman McCoy (Wolfe wanted Chevy Chase). Melanie Griffith was no slinky Circe (De Palma wanted Uma Thurman), and Bruce Willis was hardly a desiccated Brit (John Cleese said no thanks). Finally, for reasons of ethnic balance, Morgan Freeman replaced Alan Arkin as a righteous judge, who in the book was a Jew. The novel they said couldn't be filmed . . . couldn't. Not by these folks...
Watching Henry & June, though, the moviegoer wonders at the controversy. One might expect sexual fireworks aplenty in the literary love story of Henry Miller (Fred Ward) and Anais Nin (Maria de Medeiros), two residents of the sex-as-art pantheon, and their put-upon spouses (Uma Thurman and Richard E. Grant). But Kaufman is a gent who dreams, ever so fastidiously, about nymphs and satyrs. And here he cannot find the moviemaking skill to suit his fine passion. His actors look stranded; with the exception of the tremulous, bewitching De Medeiros, they indulge in huff and bluster...