The psychiatric love story, a peculiar genre epitomized by Hitchcock's loonily melodramatic SPELLBOUND (1946), seems to have become popular in 1993--at least with Richard Gere, who chose to follow up the profitable but ludicrous FINAL ANALYSIS with this sorry star vehicle which he also
co-produced.
Gere plays the eponymous and nearly anonymous Jones (we never learn his first name), an unemployed carpenter, who charms his way into a construction job only to have a psychotic episode, courting death by walking on an unfinished roof while raving about wanting to fly and the need to find "a
little equilibrium." Sedated and restrained, he is examined by Dr. Elizabe...
Released:
1993
Rated:
R
Length:
114 mins