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Director:
Michael Pressman
Writers:
David Seltzer (teleplay)
Thom Thomas (teleplay)
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Release Date:
18 March 1985 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
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User Comments:
But For The Clichés, It May Have Become A Series. more (1 total)

Cast

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Mike Farrell ... Dr. Joe Braden

Maureen Stapleton ... Dr. Liz Bolger
Denise Miller ... Angie
Kathryn Walker ... Claire Braden
Mary Tanner Bailey ... Millie Braden (as Mary Tanner)

David Labiosa ... Ramon
Tom Bosley ... Harry O'Reilly

Robert Vaughn ... Oliver Coles

Kelly McGillis ... Jennifer Coles

Greg Evigan ... Rick

Hope Lange ... Mrs. Coles

Kim Hunter ... Rosemary O'Reilly

Victor Garber ... Jerry Sharma
John Cunningham ... Paul Rogers

Elias Koteas ... Johnny O'Reilly
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Runtime:
USA:120 min (including commercials)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:15 | Iceland:L
Company:
Raven's Claw Productions more

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But For The Clichés, It May Have Become A Series., 19 May 2005
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Author: rsoonsa (rsoonsa@bandbbooks.com) from Mountain Mesa, California

This pilot produced as a possible television weekly series that did not come about, features a psychotherapist, Dr. Joe Braden (Mike Farrell), who becomes closely involved with his patients, away from his office, the plot blending two separate cases, an ostensibly compulsive nymphomaniac, performed by Kelly McGillis, and a cab driver (Tom Bosley) who is suffering from audio hallucinations; additionally, Braden's associations with his former wife and with his daughter, along with a possible new romance for him fill the landscape of the scenario. Farrell gives an obviously well prepared and nicely nuanced reading as a therapist who cares deeply for his patients, while McGillis and Robert Vaughn also provide strong performances for a film that is ably directed, acted and photographed; however, other than brief dialogue concerning matters of psychologic theory between Braden and a Freudian psychoanalyst with whom he shares a medical suite, at issue are serious mental and emotional maladies that are patly solved within the script in cavalier fashion, reducing the believability potential of Braden who apparently, during a television series, would be obsessed with problems of his clientèle week after neurosis-saturated week. The DVD version offers no extra features, other than an inadequate scene index.

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