The latest offender in the odd "let's see what the cute and funny mentally ill can teach us" genre, this mystery/domestic drama commits all the usual sins and clichés. The conceit worked brilliantly once in the satire KING OF HEARTS, which found the inmates literally running the asylum, and was brilliantly inverted in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, in which the inmates learn from a pretender. But for every GIRL, INTERRUPTED or THE SNAKE PIT, there are countless mental-hospital movies like CRAZY PEOPLE, THE DREAM TEAM and, now, this. One afternoon in Grand Central Terminal, police investigating a mugging pick up a perfectly calm man (Kevin Spacey) who claims to...
Released:
2001
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
118 mins