Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
Acting
Dudley Moore's manic desperation is peak neurotic charm.
Writing
Marshall Brickman's Woody Allen-adjacent wit with more heart.
Direction
Freud's ghost cameo is camp perfection.
Director
Marshall Brickman
Dudley Moore
Saul Benjamin
Elizabeth McGovern
Chloe Allen
John Huston
Larry Geller, M.D.
Alan King
Lionel Gross, M.D.
Gene Saks
Mr. Houseman, Frantic Patient
Wallace Shawn
Otto Jaffe
Ron Silver
Ted Caruso
Renée Taylor
Mrs. Mondragon
Alec Guinness
Sigmund Freud
Anne DeSalvo
Case Interviewer
Selma Diamond
Harriet Singer, M.D.
David Strathairn
Marvin Zuckerman
Christine Baranski
Nymphomaniac
Kent Broadhurst
Gay Patient
Lester Rawlins
Silent Patient
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Marshall Brickman's solo directorial debut after co-writing Annie Hall and Manhattan with Woody Allen.
The film flopped commercially but captures early-'80s Upper West Side intellectual romanticism now lost to time.
US
