Shrink

Name: Shrink
Genre: Drama
Released: July 24, 2009
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 40
Cast: Keke Palmer, Kevin Spacey, Mark Webber

2009

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Roadside Attractions | Release Date: July 24, 2009 | R

Starring: Keke Palmer, Kevin Spacey, Mark Webber

Summary: Despite his staggering success, L.A.'s top celebrity psychiatrist and self-help author has reached the end of his rope. Disillusioned with both his career and personal life, his only hope of salvation will have to come from his motley crew of neurotic Hollywood patients. (Roadside Attractions)

Director: Jonas Pate

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 104 min

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Claudia Puig

Grief and suicide seem unlikely subjects for a comedy. But Shrink tries gamely to mine edgy humor from the darkest places. Sometimes it works. Other times, its Hollywood-centric focus feels like a re-heated cinemash of "The Wackness," "Crash" and "The Player." Read full review

John Anderson

The film may be too inside-baseball, with strained sympathy and contrived emotions. Read full review

Amy Biancolli

The plot relies heavily on pat betrayal, forced coincidences - and the sort of closure that lands, with a thud, in a tidy package of cliches. Yet some of the humor is delicious. Read full review

Kirk Honeycutt

You do wish Pate and writer Thomas Moffett had gone for more wit given the outlandishness of the melodrama since it would be more fun to laugh at this than take it seriously. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Shrink is exactly like virtually all his (Spacey) post-"American Beauty" vehicles: flashy, phony, nakedly melodramatic, and full of big actorly moments disconnected from real life. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Ironically for a film revolving around psychotherapy, Shrink doesn't stand up to analysis. Read full review

Cliff Doerksen

Director Jonas Pate should be run through a wood chipper for daring to quote "Fargo." Read full review

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RONGIU

Sep 25, 2010

Sorry for the traslation, is mechanical.

Personally, I do not believe "in accepting male human existence." The human existence, includes pain, pain acceptance Manly, disgusts me, makes me sick, I fear. If I think of the pain, with its entire range of colors, from black to white, well, ISorry for the traslation, is mechanical.

Personally, I do not believe "in accepting male human existence." The human existence, includes pain, pain acceptance Manly, disgusts me, makes me sick, I fear. If I think of the pain, with its entire range of colors, from black to white, well, I immediately think of the silence. Pain, with all its colors, the silence, with only his breath. The pain is silence, the silence is over, the pain is over.
Pain belongs to everyone. All the pain is "my pain". All the pain is a pain with-divided. Probably the most difficult goal to achieve for every living thing is, I believe, inner harmony. Feelings and passions are tides, carry within us, are companions of our journey. How can a man feel Himself of high tide? A winner, a sure If a man without fear?
In contrast, those of low tide, is vulnerable ... ... anxious, uncertain ... the path. Careful ... because as stated, may have a different meaning if the same experience takes place in a new tenant takes possession of new citizenship. The Winner is crushed, knotted at the throat until it choked, painful attacks of the extreme panic.
This is why the man in the "network of real pain," and can never say never considered a winner or a manly man. No, you can not overcome pain. Never You know why? Because you're a BIOS button, thinking. And all that lives, thrives and thinks, is intended eventually to the suffering, pain.
"Think, then, is painful."
Then, when the pain ends, tops, overflows, breaks psychophysical margins of tolerance, the consequences are terrible. You can touch, you can touch the bottom. And perhaps without lifts. The goal of inner harmony, at this point seems to elude final hand. It 's so? No! No! And again No! Two Knights come to our aid. Time, the tangible, concrete, and the man, who at that time and the trainer.

Shrink,

is a masterpiece about man and his time. In this film marks, across their common range, are the true masters of the scene. Signs leave traces everywhere. Shrink is a masterpiece of human color is slowly catch a movie. All of these "human colored signs" found in Dr. Henry Carter (Kevin Spacey) dispenser (paradoxically) of various emotional situations ranging from boredom, creativity, through the anguish.
Teens, adults and mature men will be confronted with this doctor. Dr. Carter, with his fallacies, becomes the guiding spirit of all patients in his study. Constant concern for their return to the "normal mental activity."

Dr. Carter is a sufferer. A tragic event has made his life, restless. It 'a "Shrink", a famous doctor, shrink, his books are selling books, his study has important acquaintances, but it is suffering. His mind is always looking for a radar target is not readily apparent. In different types of "grass", he feels, seems to seek the exact coordinates for his research. The moment the car wash is your moment in the sense that it finds and pleasure, from analyst to analyze.
In my opinion, the "snake-oil" has unconsciously realized that in psychiatry the concept of "care" has a different meaning. How should the approach to this inconvenience for patients? The clash between emotional pain Vs Man and Time, will have a winner? Well, that just do not have to ask. One thing, however, I would suggest. The vision of "shared" in this film. Discuss with others, "talk" is the first step to feel less alone.
Jonas Pate has a center. His work, like the entire cast, is not the seller of smoke. I think.

Good Ciak!… Expand

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xolve

Mar 15, 2016

A nice film with a well-written but unbelievable script. The movements are truncated, and in doing so resolve to make no sense. Well-executed but underwhelming. Had they taken half-an-hour longer to make the character connections believable, it might have worked.

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night4

Jun 27, 2016

It was engaging at first, but the middle and especially ending don't live up to what it could have been. It's a shame, too, because there are many great actors in this. (Robin Williams was miscast in this though)

Basically, it's a depressing movie that gets slightly less depressing by the end.

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bromsayswut

Nov 8, 2010

This whole movie wreaked of a commercial Hollywood production poorly disguised as an indie film.

"Shrink" was just trying too hard to be numb, just trying to hard to make us sentimental. I actually cringed at like 6 or 7 lines of dialogue. Kevin Spacey was great, but he was the only goodThis whole movie wreaked of a commercial Hollywood production poorly disguised as an indie film.

"Shrink" was just trying too hard to be numb, just trying to hard to make us sentimental. I actually cringed at like 6 or 7 lines of dialogue. Kevin Spacey was great, but he was the only good one. It was all too coincidental, all too "Crash", all too corny. The subplots all were awful, except for maybe Spacey's. I have no idea what to take away from the movie, other than life sucks, "But we're still here, and that's somethin'." Dallas Roberts' character was also pretty interesting, but ultimately his resolution was entirely unsatisfactory, and essentially a break in character on the part of the writers. The writers seemed possessed to force/cram every character into a character that's good at heart.… Expand

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FilipeNeto

Jul 25, 2018

Annoyed to death.

This film is about a psychiatrist who, after his wife's death and entry into the world of drugs, begins to question his ability to help his patients, despite his fame, success and the various famous clients he has among the Hollywood elite. The only solution to her doubtsAnnoyed to death.

This film is about a psychiatrist who, after his wife's death and entry into the world of drugs, begins to question his ability to help his patients, despite his fame, success and the various famous clients he has among the Hollywood elite. The only solution to her doubts is the confrontation with Jemma, a middle-class girl who also suffers from an unresolved mourning and is the only person able to see things from another perspective.

This movie might have been good, but it's just plain messy. The pace is too slow and the characters are monotonous, uninteresting and poorly developed, with no connection between them and the audience. The film has a strong cast, full of sounding names like Kevin Spacey and Robin Williams, but there is no good material to give them and Jonas Pate's direction is absolutely incompetent. For example, Robin Williams never plays a character. He is limited to being himself saying decorated lines. With the exception of these two actors, who stood out to me because I know them, the rest of the cast merged into an amorphous, almost anonymous crowd. I had a hard time noticing who is who, to the point of losing my interest in the film. The task of watching it has become inglorious.

What does it matter if the sets and costumes are good, if cinematography fulfills her role well, if the soundtrack proved to be competent? If I, as a public, can not understand the film, if I do not feel attracted to the story and everything loses interest because it's boring, the movie is not good for me.… Expand

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